DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2018.v06i10.057

Pages: 3964-3967

This prospective and descriptive study was conducted at the department of General Surgery at Kamineni academy of medical sciences and research centre, L.B Nagar, Hyderabad. A total 100 patients with different breast lesions were included in this study. Patient was evaluated with different diagnostic modalities like clinical diagnosis, mammography, ultra-sonogram, fine needle aspiration cytology and histopathology. In our study out of 100 cases studied, Fibroadenoma (52%), Fibrocystic disease (11%), carcinoma breast (11%) fibroadenosis (8%), breast abscess(5%), lipoma (3%), Antibioma (3%)Phylloides Tumour(2%), Breast tuberculosis (2%),fat necrosis and Duct Ectasia (1%) were observed. The maximum effected age group is between 20-29 years (42%) followed by 30-39 years (31%). In our study Superolateral quadrant (56%) was the commonest site of occurrence of these lumps. Next was superomedial (17%), inferomedial (15%), inferolateral (12%), and periareolar (10%). Nulliparous (including unmarried) were most commonly affected group (62%), next was primipara (30%) followed by multipara (8%). The most commonly observed symptom was lump in the breast (37%) followed by pain in breast (26%). The histopathological studies give accurate diagnosis of the lesion along with other techniques.