...umps in breast may be due to benign or malignant lesions. Fine needle aspiration cytology is a quick, simple and inexpensive procedure in diagnosis of these lumps and helps the clinician to plan correct management. A total of240 aspirations of breast lumps were performed on patients ranging from 7 to 70 years of age. Out of 120 benign breast lesions 115 were similar on histopathology whereas...

A total of 2431 fine needle aspirates of symptomatic breast lumps was performed on 2096 patients over the last three years at the weekly head, neck and breast clinic at the Belfast City Hospital Trust. Diagnostic accuracy was achieved within the recommended standards although the "insufficient" rate was high at 31.8%. False negative and positive rates were low and the positive predictive value ...

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to assess the features of breast lesion texture on sonographic images of patients submitted to breast-conserving surgery, with or without tumor recurrence. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Sonographic images of 36 patients submitted to conservative surgery for breast cancer, 12 of them with, and 24 without local recurrence, included 3 contralateral malignant lesio...

BACKGROUND Despite current recommendations for women to be screened for breast cancer with mammography every 1 to 2 years, less than half of all newly diagnosed breast cancers are initially detected through screening mammography. Prompt medical attention to a new breast symptom can result in earlier stage at diagnosis, yet many patients delay seeking medical care after becoming aware of a breas...

Breast lumps in women are a common clinical problem that requires rapid and accurate diagnosis with an important aim of excluding any malignancy. Careful evaluation, exact diagnosis and definite treatment are mandatory for managing breast lumps. This study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) for diagnosis of breast lumps in women. 100 patients were e...

Department of Surgery AL-Jamhoory Teaching Hospital Mosul Medical City Iraq. diagnostic approach of palpable breast lumps should involve the use of rapid, inexpensive, most accurate and least invasive methods to evaluate and distinguish between benign and malignant lumps in out patient clinics, such methods would benefit both patients and surgeons by  Promoting proper preoperative diagnosis an...

We report two cases of young women in whom a breast lump was the first symptom of disseminated lymphoma. They were managed by wide excision of the affected segments of breast. Histological diagnosis was aided by immunoperoxidase stains for immunoglobulin chains. Further investigations demonstrated the wide spread nature of the disease, with involvement of bone marrow, bone cortex, lymph nodes a...