Abstract

Breast lump is one of the common surgical problems encountered in female patients. The goal of pathological diagnosis is to distinguish between aggressive carcinomas requiring aggressive treatment and benign lesions that allow for a more conservative approach. METHOD: A cross-sectional study was conducted in which the cytological diagnosis of palpable lesion of the breast was compared with histopathological diagnosis to find sensitivity, specificity, negative predictive value (NPV), and positive predictive value (PPV) of FNAC in breast lumps. A total number of 62 fine needle aspiration cytology were performed. Every patient subjected to FNAC underwent a definitive surgical procedure and was subjected to histopathology. RESULTS: Statistical analysis was performed on the tabulated data and sensitivity and specificity with PPV and NPV were obtained. Of all 62 patients selected, only 2 were false negative for malignancy i.e., they were detected as benign lesions on FNAC but found to be malignant on histopathology. Hence, the sensitivity of the study was 92.3% and the specificity for malignant lesions was 100%. The PPV was 100% and the NPV was 94.7% CONCLUSION: Histological correlation indicated FNAC to be a good diagnostic tool as the p-value turned out to be 0.001, considered extremely significant. It gives a good histological correlation.

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