European Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine

Background: Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC) is a simple, minimally invasive, cost effective, outpatient based and a rapid diagnostic method for breast lesions. The aim is to determine the accuracy with the benign and malignant lesions can be differentiated by fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) and to correlate the findings with histopathological diagnosis Material and Methods: It is a prospective study comprising of 105 patients of breast lumps who underwent FNAC followed by histopathological examination. All the breast lump aspirates were stained with Haematoxylin and Eosin (H and E) stain. Results: Among total majority of the patients (29.5%) belong to 31-40 years age group. Benign breast lesions were found in 65.8%, among which fibroadenoma (40.9%) was the commonest lesion which was observed. Malignancy was observed in 34.2%; among them, ductal carcinoma was the predominant lesion (18.1%) which was seen. Breast lump lesion was more in right side (54.3%) than left breast. Conclusion: The most common benign tumor in the present study was fibroadenoma and the most common malignant tumor was invasive ductal carcinoma.