A Comparison of Resource Costs of Immediate and Delayed Breast Reconstruction
A Comparison of Resource Costs of Immediate and Delayed Breast Reconstruction is a scholarly work, published in 1998 in ''Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery''. The main subjects of the publication include medicine, hospital costs, breast cancer, mammaplasty, mastectomy, surgery, microsurgery, breast reconstruction, and craniofacial surgery. The authors found that the mean resource cost for the 57 patients who had separate mastectomy followed by delayed breast reconstruction ($28,843) was 62 percent higher than that of mastectomy with immediate reconstruction ($17,801; n = 219, p < 0.001).