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2016
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Educational Society for Excellence
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Introduction: Breast carcinomas are one of the leading causes of cancer in women. Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC) is one of the important tools for the pre-operative diagnosis of breast lesions. Materials and methods: A total of 200 breast aspirates were studied. Histo-cytopathological correlations were obtained in all cases. All the aspirates were stained with Hematoxylin and Eosin (H and E) stain. Results: Among 200 patients, 195 were females and 5 were males. Benign breast lesions were found in 120 cases; among which fibroadenoma (34%) was the commonest lesion which was observed. Malignancy was observed in 80 cases; among them, ductal carcinoma was the predominant. Conclusion: We can conclude that FNA is widely accepted as a reliable technique in the initial evaluation of palpable breast lumps. It is simple, safe, cost-effective, minimally invasive, rapid and as sensitive as biopsy.
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FNAC, Fine needle aspiration cytology, Breast lump, Benign, Malignant
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Rathod GB, Jain M, Vachhani D, Chandra A, Balar M.. Retrospective study of fine needle aspiration cytology of clinically palpable breast lump. International Archives of Integrated Medicine. 2016 Fab; 3(2): 69-73