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Fig. 2 | Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Fig. 2

From: Body image in head and neck cancer patients treated with radiotherapy: the impact of surgical procedures

Fig. 2

Body image dissatisfaction of all patients (n = 150) divided by radical surgery and the three surgical procedures*: No OP (n = 60, the patients who did not receive radical surgery), OP I (n = 20, surgically-treated patients who had partial glossectomy but without inferior maxillectomy or segmental mandibulectomy), OP II (n = 31, surgically-treated patients who had one of the three surgical procedures*), OP III (n = 32, surgically-treated patients who had two of the three surgical procedures*), and OP IV (n = 7, surgically-treated patients who had all three surgical procedures*), p < 0.001. *Three surgical procedures were inferior maxillectomy, segmental mandibulectomy, and not partial glossectomy (total glossectomy or wide local excision of buccal/gingival/retromolar tumors)

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