PROSPECTIVE STUDY TO CORRELATE FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY WITH HISTOPATHOLOGY IN CLINICALLY PALPABLE BREAST LUMPS

Dr. Eliyaz syed; Dr K . B .Chakravarthy; Dr.Abhishek Katha

Volume : VI, Issue : XII, December - 2016

PROSPECTIVE STUDY TO CORRELATE FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY WITH HISTOPATHOLOGY IN CLINICALLY PALPABLE BREAST LUMPS

Dr. Eliyaz Syed, Dr K . B . Chakravarthy, Dr. Abhishek Katha

Abstract :

Background Palpable east lump is a common presentation among women and cause for a state of anxiety but most of the cases are benign ,hence it is necessary to re assure them reduce their anxiety as well as to minimize delay in diagnosis, FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY plays a very important role. Objective To analyze diagnostic accuracy of FNAC in palpable east lumps with histo–pathological correlation. Methods: The findings obtained from FNAC of palpable east lumps in our department from Feuary 2012 to October 2014 were retrieved and correlated with findings on histology of excisional biopsies. Results 20 months prospective study on 100 was carried out in our hospital. In that fine needle aspiration cytology revealed benign in 79 patients, malignant in19 and inadequate sample in 2 patients with false negative results of 2 and false positive zero. The overall sensitivity of fine needle aspiration cytology in diagnosing the palpable east lump in our study was 90.47%, specificity was 100%., positive predictive value of 100% and negative predictive value of 97.46%.diagnostic accuracy is 97.95%. Conclusion: FNAC is a very important preliminary diagnostic test in palpable east lumps and the results show a high degree of correlation with the final histopathology report.