Hospital costs and cosmetic outcome of benign and high-risk breast lesions managed by vacuum assisted excision versus surgical excision

Background: Benign and high-risk breast lesions can be excised when symptomatic or for diagnotisc purposes. Although vacuum assisted excision (VAE) is a safe effective alternative to surgical excision(SE), most hospitals still use SE the management of benign high risk lesions. To evaluate health care benefit VAE, hospital costs cosmetic outcome after VAE were compared SE. Additionally, periods before implementation compared.