Role of Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology in Breast Lesions in Correlation with Histopathology – A 4 Years Study
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ABSTRACT
Background:
Breast lesions are most common among women, where majority of the breast lesions are benign. Even though most of the breast lesions are benign; malignant lesions are most concern, as because they are commonest malignant lesions especially among western population. Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC) has proved to be a safe cost effective, good screening and quick procedure for early diagnosis of palpable breast lesions.Aim:
The aim of this present study is to diagnosis different categories of various breast lesions and correlation of FNAC and Histopathological diagnosis.Methods:
This study was done on 224 breast lesions with palpable breast swellings referred to Department of Pathology, Government Medical College, Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh over a period of 4 years from January 2015 to December 2018. Lesions were categorised as per cytomorphological features obtained on FNAC. Histopathological correlation was assessed in all breast lesions, inclusive of all malignant cases.Results:
Out of 224 breast lesions, 178 (79.46%) cases were categorized as Benign and 39 (17.4%) cases as malignant, 7 cases (3.12%) are inflammatory. Most common benign lesions are fibroadenoma i.e., 54%. Most common malignant lesions are Infiltrating duct cell carcinoma, it was 16.96%. Uncommon malignant lesion is medullary carcinoma, it was 0.44%. Out of 224 palpable breast lesions, 203 (90.63%) diagnosed by histopathology were consistent with FNAC.Conclusion:
FNAC is safe, cost effective, good screening, quick outpatient procedure with high sensitivity & sensitivity and histopathology is a confirmatory diagnosis and especially it can help to confirm suspicious malignant cases.
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Type of study:
Screening_studies
Year:
2019
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Article