Efficiency of FNAB in diagnosis of suspicious breast lumps

ABSTRACT

171 females and 9 males with palpable breast lumps were submitted to fine needle aspiration biopsy [FNAB] and the results were correlated to the final diagnosis of paraffin sections after surgical excision of the mass. the of accuracy of FNAB was 92.05% and the false negative results were 5.2% FNAB method is considered not only an efficient and economic screening diagnostic method but it also helps the surgeon to choose the best line of management