Costs associated with evaluation of incidental breast lesions identified on computed tomography.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to calculate the costs associated with the evaluation of breast incidentalomas (BI) identified on CT.

Methods: All CT scans of the thorax performed at the radiological department of the University Hospital of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg between the years 2006 and 2014 were reanalysed retrospectively. 111 patients with BI were identified.