Prospective Study of Benign Breast Disease in a Rural Tertiary Care Hospital

ABSTRACT

Objective of the present study was to evaluate different patterns of benign breast diseases and theirmode of presentation and also to correlate between clinical and pathological findings in cases ofpalpable lesion of breast. A total of 130 patients who attended the Surgery Department in MMIMSRMedical College, Mullana, Ambala with various forms of BBDs, during the period from January 2014to April 2016, were studied. Early diagnoses by doing a triple assessment such as a clinical examination,fine-needle aspiration cytology or a core needle biopsy, and imaging methods such as ultrasonographyor mammography. The clinical diagnoses were compared with the cytological or histological findingswherever possible, and their accuracies were evaluated. Out of the 130 patients who were studied,majority of patients who presented with breast lumps, were in the reproductive age group. Fibroadenoma(41.5%) and fibrocystic (14.6) diseases were the most common BBD's. Most patients presented aspainless lump which is need to be differentiated from carcinoma. BBD's most commonly affectedupper and outer quadrant. Most of the patient (61%) presented within 6 months of development ofbreast lesion showing increasing awareness in females of rural India. BBDs are common in femalepatients. The triple assessment provided a quick diagnosis, and it alleviated unnecessary anxiety fromthe patients about breast cancer. The clinical diagnosis of a breast lump, as confirmed by cytologyand histology, was accurate in most of the cases.