The incision and drainage of acute abscesses. Today this remains a widely used conventional method even though it has a number of disadvantages such as repeated, painful dressing changes and delayed convalescence, leading to wasted time in the postoperative period. Present study intends to compare two methods- invasive method is conventional incision and drainage and minimally invasive procedure is percutaneous placement of suction drain in the treatment of breast abscess with reference to complications like post operative pain, duration of hospital stay, time required for complete healing.Post operative pain, Residual abscess, time for complete healing and hospital stray is better with closed drainage of breast abscess.ddd |