ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION:Benign proliferative breast lesions deserve attention because of high prevalence and impacton women’s life and due to cancerous potential of some histological types.AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:i) To establish the significance of histopathology in the diagnosis of benign proliferative breast lesions.ii) To ascertain the relative frequency of each type of lesion in different age groups and its significance.iii) To compare the study with other different study. MATERIAL AND METHOD:Total 3077 biopsy was received in histopathology department of our institution during August 2015 to July 2016. Among these, 120 cases were of breast lesions. RESULT:Out of 120 breast lesions, 97 were of benign lesions and 23 were of malignant lesion in different age groups. Among these 97 benign proliferative breast lesions, 46 cases (42.22%) has fibroadenoma , 8 cases (8.24%) has epithelial hyperplasia, 27 cases (27.83%) has fibrocystic disease of breast ,5 cases (5.15%) has gynecomastia, 6 cases (6.18%) has phylloid tumour, 2 cases (2.06%) has intraductal papilloma and 3 cases (3.09 %) has adenoma.CONCLUSION:Based on morphological distribution, fibroadenoma constitute maximum number of cases followed by fibrocystic disease of breast. Phylloid tumor is rare but it has clinical relevance. Fibroadenoma is more common in younger age group (16-30 years) whereas fibrocystic disease of breast is more common in older age group (31-45 years).