FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY AND HISTOPATHOLOGICAL CORRELATION OF BREAST LESIONS

The present study includes FNAC material from the breast lesions of 100 cases over a period from August 2019 to July 2021 at Department of Pathology, Sri Lakshmi Narayana Institute of Medical Sciences, Puducherry - 605 502. In the present study, the total number of FNAC of breast lesions were 100. Of the 100 cases, 71(71 %) cases were benign, 26(26%) cases were malignant, one case was of atypical epithelial hyperplasia and 2 cases were reported as inadequate smears. Biopsy was received for 67 cases for which correlative study was done. Cytological diagnosis posed difficulty in the diagnosis of one case of fibrocystic disease. There was no false positive report; however one false negative report (ductal carcinoma reported as fibrocystic disease on FNAC) with false negative rate of 1.49%.