Cytological Study of Palpable Breast Lumps with their Histological Correlation

Cytological study of palpable breast lumps with their histological

Background: FNAC is an inexpensive and highly accurate means of diagnosing both benign and malignant breast lesions. The procedure provides a rapid and non-morbid diagnosis before the operation which enables the patient and the surgeon to discuss and plan therapeutic alternatives in a rational atmosphere. Objectives: To evaluate role of fine needle aspiration cytology in the diagnosis of breast...

Cytological/ Histological Evaluation of Palpable and Nonpalpable Breast Lesions and Its Correlation with Ulrasonography

FNAC of breast lump is an accepted and established method to determine the nature of the lump and it may play an important role when it is difficult to determine the nature of breast lump by clinical examination. It has been shown that, FNAC can reduce the number of open breast biopsies. FNAC has been found to have sensitivity ranging from 82% to 97.5% and specificity of more than 99% (7,8 and 9).

Palpable Breast Lumps

Department of Surgery AL-Jamhoory Teaching Hospital Mosul Medical City Iraq. diagnostic approach of palpable breast lumps should involve the use of rapid, inexpensive, most accurate and least invasive methods to evaluate and distinguish between benign and malignant lumps in out patient clinics, such methods would benefit both patients and surgeons by  Promoting proper preoperative diagnosis an...

Cytological Study of Palpable Breast Lump Presenting in Eastern Nepal

Evaluation of Clinically Palpable Breast Lumps with Digital Mammography, Sonography and Fnac: Case Study

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women today (After lung cancer) and is the most common cancer among women, excluding non-invasive non-melanoma skin cancers. Worldwide, breast cancer comprises 22.9% of invasive cancers in women and 16% of all female cancers.1 Mammography has been the basic imaging method in breast diagnostics, and the only tool suitable for screenin...