STUDY OF SPECTRUM OF CYTOLOGICAL FINDINGS IN ASPIRATED BREAST LESIONS IN FEMALES OF DIFFERENT AGE GROUPS

Dipti Srivastava; Deepa Rani; Rohan Sirohi; Juhi Singhal

Volume : VII, Issue : XII, December - 2018

STUDY OF SPECTRUM OF CYTOLOGICAL FINDINGS IN ASPIRATED BREAST LESIONS IN FEMALES OF DIFFERENT AGE GROUPS

Dipti Srivastava, Deepa Rani, Rohan Sirohi, Juhi Singhal

Abstract :

Background: Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is a sensitive, specific and highly accurate initial investigation to diagnose east lesions in a population having low resources and no screening programme.^[1]Correct cytodiagnosis of east lesion prevents the patient from having radical surgery, specially in non–neoplastic east lesions.

Methods: Conventional May–Grunwald Giemsa(MGG) staining was done in all the 156 cases. Histopathology was available in 57 cases. The cytological findings were correlated with histology in these cases.

Results: A total of 156 cases were studied. Benign cases (73.1%) were more than the malignant ones (21.2%). Fioadenoma (32.7%) was the most commonly diagnosed east lesion, followed by malignancy (21.1%). Comparison of the disease at different ages showed that percentage of malignancy increases with the increasing age. We found 100% cytohistological correlation, proving that FNAC is highly effective in diagnosing east lesions. There were no false positive or false negative cases in the present study.

Conclusion: FNAC is very effective in differentiating between benign and malignant lesions preoperatively, thus reducing patients anxiety and helping the surgeon to plan the surgical management.