A prospective study of histopathological spectrum of benign breast lesions in a tertiary hospital

Abstract

Introduction: In India, the second most common malignancy after cervical carcinoma is carcinoma breast1 and is seen in 20/1,00,000 women[1]. Lesions of the breast are diverse including several entities with remarkably diverse characteristic feature extending from inflammatory non-neoplastic and benign lesions to life threatening invasive carcinomas. Materials and Methods: The present study was conducted in the department of Pathology, Tagore Medical College and Hospital, Chennai, India over a period of 1 year February 2020 to January 2021. Total 220 benign breast lesion were studied during the period. Core needle biopsy, excision biopsy, lumpectomy, modified radical mastectomy specimens were examined. Sections were processed, embedded for paraffin sectioning, stained with hematoxylin and eosin stain and detailed microscopic examination was done. The demographic characteristics of patients were presented in excel sheet and analyzed for the frequency of each lesion and their distribution in various age group. Results: This included 215 females and 05 males. Out of these 220 breast lesions, 40 were malignant cases and 180 were benign breast lesions. These 180 benign breast lesions including inflammatory lesions, benign proliferative lesions and benign tumors (Table1). Out of 220 cases, 215 were females and 05 were males. Conclusion: Benign breast lesions are common than malignant neoplasms. Fibro adenoma is the commonest benign breast lesion. Our study had given the information which was comparable with other studies. Histopathological study of breast lesions play very important role in diagnosis of lesion and hence in treatment and prognosis.