Résumé
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