Radiological and Histopathological Evaluation in Reduction Mammoplasty

Aim: Mammography and ultrasonography are helpful diagnostic methods for the detection of asymptomatic lesions prior to reduction mammoplasty operations. Preoperative radiological evaluation does not give accurate results all time. Consequently, preoperative radilological and postoperative histopathologic evaluation were used together in order to diagnose the premalignant and silent cancer foci. Material and Methods: In our clinic, 135 patients underwent reduction mammoplasty operation between 2007 and 2011. The age of the patients ranged from 18 to 67 (mean 44.6). Ultrasonography was performed for all the patients and mammography was performed additionally for the ones older than 40 years of age. The excised tissue samples were sent for histopathologic evaluation. Results: Preoperative radiologic evaluation, USG results were assessed as normal in 96 patients (71,1%) and, of the patients, % 8,1 had fibrocystic changes, 0,7% had lipoma, 4.4% had fibroadenoma and 2,9% had benign lymph node. In the histopathologic evaluation, 7% had mild epithelial hyperplasia, 4,8% had severe epithelial hyperplasia, 25,9% had fibrocystic changes, 16.2% had fibrosis, 9,6% had fatty breast tissue, 7,7% had apocrine metaplasia, 4,4% had ductal ectasia, 3,7% had focal adenosis, 4,4% had mild ductal hyperplasia, 3,7% had fibroadenoma and 12,2% had normal breast tissue. Conclusion: In this study, non-proliferative benign changes were seen in the 87,6% of the breast tissue samples. No premalignant or malignant lesions were detected. These results revealed that preoperative radiologic evaluation and postoperative histopathologic analysis were significant in terms of diagnosis of benign, premalignant or silent malignant lesions of the breast.