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Table 4 Summary of total costs (cost-unit accounting) for risk-reducing surgical procedures compared with total revenues (negative values are represented in italics)

From: Cost effectiveness of bilateral risk-reducing mastectomy and salpingo-oophorectomy

Operations

Total hospital costs (cost-unit accounting)

Personnel

Material

Infrastructure

Total costs

BRRM

€ 1359

€ 753

€ 475

€ 2588

RRSO

€ 376

€ 90

€ 148

€ 614

BRRM with immediate implant-based breast reconstruction

 1987

€ 619

 2137

€ −3504

BRRM and delayed implant-based breast reconstruction

 768

 2786

 917

€ −4471

BRRM with immediate DIEP-based breast reconstruction

 722

 287

€ 157

€ −852

BRRM with delayed DIEP-based breast reconstruction

€ 3520

€ 347

€ 1168

€ 5035

  1. BRRM bilateral risk-reducing mastectomy, RRSO risk-reducing (bilateral) salpingo-oophorectomy, DIEP deep inferior epigastric perforator flap