Abstract

FNAC of breast lumps is an accepted and established method for determine the natures of breast lumps with a high degree of accuracy and it may play an important role when it is difficult to determine the nature of breast lump by clinical examination. MATERIAL AND METHOD: The present study is hospital based cross sectional study was carry out from March 2021 to September 2022 on 183 patients in cytology section of pathology department, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College & Hospital Jabalpur (M.P). RESULT: In our study, the maximum number of cases was in the 20-39 years age group, with 84 cases (45.90%). The mean age was 37 ± 14.65. The majority of breast lesions presented as a lump, with 157 cases (85.8%). The size was <2 cm in 76 cases (41.53%), unilateral in 164 cases (89.62%), located in the upper outer quadrant in 117 cases (63.93%), firm in consistency in 122 cases (66.67%), with regular margins in 128 cases (69.95%), mobile in 126 cases (68.85%), and the aspirate material was whitish in color in 121 cases (66.12%). In the present study, the most common pattern on cytology was fibroadenoma (FA), accounting for 105 cases (57.4%) CONCLUSION: We concluded that FNAC is simple rapid, minimally invasive cost effective, reliable outpatient procedure highly sensitive in making early and accurate diagnosis.

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