Spectrum of cytological findings in patients with breast lesions : an institutional experience.

Dr Kanchan Rathore; Dr Omveer Singh Chouhan; Dr  A.R. Kalla

Volume : V, Issue : VI, June - 2016

Spectrum of cytological findings in patients with breast lesions : an institutional experience.

Dr Kanchan Rathore, Dr Omveer Singh Chouhan, Dr A. R. Kalla

Abstract :

 Background : FNAC is being performed as a pre–operative test to evaluate east lump. The procedure provides a rapid and non–morbid diagnosis before surgery.This study intended to look the frequencies of different lesions in FNAC of east lumps. Methods: FNAC was done in a total of 474 patients presented with east lesions along with suspected enlarged axillary lymph node, if any , in the Department of Pathology of Mahatma Gandhi Hospital, Jodhpur over a period of three years. We assessed the age of the patient, type of lesion and axillary lymph node metastasis in case of malignancies. Results: Age ranges from 13–98 years. Most of the patients were in 21–30 years age group (23.07%). Among the lesions 122 (25.73%) were fioadenoma, 65 (13.71%) were fioadenosis, 57 (12.02%) were acute mastitis, 53 (11.18%) were carcinoma, 37 (7.8%) were fiocystic changes . 45 (36.88%) of fioadenoma and 20 (52.63%) of carcinoma were in the age group 21–30 years and 60–80 years respectively. Out of 53 carcinoma patients 8 (15.09%) showed metastasis in axillary lymph nodes. Conclusion: FNAC is a simple and reliable method for diagnosis of both benign and malignant lesions quite accurately thus reducing unnecessary surgeries.Though it cannot categorize the lesion in some cases but it can rule out malignancy in most of the cases. Fioadenoma was the commonest lesion in this study.