The largest clinical research project that I participated in was the ‘Tuberous Breast Deformity Study’ which looked at breast asymmetries in women who presented for all types of breast enhancement surgery. We classified each patient based on the presence of an asymmetry and the presence of a tuberous (misshapen) breast deformity.
This was labor intensive. This was before digital photography was popular for taking before and after photos, so all the photographs had been kept in the form of slides. These slides had to be loaded one by one into carousels and then projected on a 6 ft x 6 ft screen and evaluated. This was done for 375 consecutive patients.