A prevalence  of breast lumps in patients attending Surgery OPD  in a secondary centre, Ahmedabad , Gujarat.

Dr Hemang Panchal; Dr Ashish Desai; Dr Hiren Parmar

Volume : V, Issue : IV, April - 2016

A prevalence of breast lumps in patients attending Surgery OPD in a secondary centre, Ahmedabad , Gujarat.

Dr Hemang Panchal, Dr Ashish Desai, Dr Hiren Parmar

Abstract :

Background: Breast lesions can be of various types from inflammatory to benign to malignant. Some lesions are common in young females while others are more common in elderly age group. Aim: The study aim were intend to profiling prevalence and finding out age–related presentation of east lumps. To find out the prevalence of inflammatory, benign and malignant east lesions and age related pattern of presentation of patients with various east lesions. Materials and method: The study comprises analysis of 100 patients attending for east symptoms in surgical opd at GMERS Hospital, Sola, Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Detailed history was recorded and clinical examination was conducted. Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) were done and results recorded. Suspicious cases were confirmed by histopathology examination. Results: Out of the 100 cases analysed, 69 % were benign, 18 % malignant and the remaining 13% were inflammatory. Among the benign east disease fioadenoma was most common accounting for 54 (54%) of total cases followed by 9 (9 %) fioadenosis, 2 (2%) sebaceous cyst over east, 3 (3 %) fiocystic disease , 1(1%) Gyanecomasia and in the inflammatory lesions 12(12%) were east abscess and 1(1%) was mastitis. Among malignant lesions, 17 (17%) were ductal adeno carcinoma, 1 (1%) paget�s disease of nipple. In the age group 15–30 fioadenoma comprised of 79.6 % cases. The youngest age of carcinoma east in our study is 32 year , and older age is 75 year. Conclusion: Fioadenoma is more common in benign east lesions whereas ductal adenocarcinoma in malignant east lesion.