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Figure 2. Patients’ classification of upper arm skin and fat excess according to the Rohrich classification system

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Excellent Good Fair Revision surgery
Satisfaction rate
Figure 3. Patients’ satisfaction rates with the result 3 months after the surgery

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Satisfaction rate

Figure 4. Patients’ satisfaction rates with the result 6 months after the surgery

classification are presented in Figures 3 and 4. There was high statistically significant negative correlation in
between grade and patients’ satisfaction with the final result (P < 0.001). The higher the grade, the lower the
satisfaction rate was.

After comparing satisfaction rates 3 and 6 months after the surgery, there was no significant difference in
patients’ satisfaction with final result (P = 0.096), which is very encouraging since it demonstrates that results