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Background: To find out frequency and distribution of different types of breast carcinoma in mastectomy specimens
Subjects and Methods: It was an observational study conducted in the Department of Histopathology, Shaikh Zayed Hospital, Lahore. The study comprised of a convenient sample of 30 female patients above 30 years of age undergoing modified radical mastectomy for carcinoma during a period of six months from December 2004 to May 2005
Results: A total of 30 mastectomy specimens of 30 female patients of age 30-79 years were included. A slightly greater proportion of patients [56.67%] had the tumour on the right side while [43.30%] had it in upper outer quadrant. Out of these thirty carcinomas, 25 cases were ductal in type whereas 4 were lobular
Conclusion: Majority of the patients in our study were in the fifth and fourth decade of life. Slightly greater proportion of patients had the carcinoma in the upper outer quadrant of right breast. Infiltrating ductal carcinoma was the commonest type
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Brain tumors comprise 10% of all tumors and account for the most common tumors of childhood. Peak incidence is seen at 5th decade. Supratentorial tumors are present in adults and Infratentorial tumors are frequent in childhood. In this study, 100 cases of SOL [space occupying lesion] brain were received as biopsies or as whole specimens fixed in 10% formal in. Out of the total 100 cases, male to female ratio was 61: 39.Highest number of cases was seen in ages 51 years and above. Out of the total of 100 tumors, 47 were benign and 53 were malignant tumors. Among the benign tumors, following cases were reported: Meningioma, 24; Pituitary adenoma, 12; Schwannoma, 09; Choroid plexus papilloma, 01 and Neurofibroma, 01. Among the malignant tumors ,following types were seen: Glioblastoma multiforme, 12; Metastatic carcinoma, 08; Fibrillary astrocytoma, 08; Anaplastic astrocytoma, 08; Medulloblastoma, 06; Oligodendroglioma, 03; Gemistocytic astrocytoma, 03; Ependymoma, 03; Pilocytic astrocytoma, 01 and subependymal gia nt cell astrocytoma [SEGA], 01. Thus, the commonest benign tumor reported was classical meningioma and commonest malignant tumor was glioblastoma multiforme