Breast lumps: a study of 10 years.

A retrospective study of lumps in the breast sent for histopathological examination in Calcutta National Medical College for a period of last 10 years was done. It was found that 2062 cases (6.82%) of histopathological examination of breast lump were studied out of a total 30208 specimens during that period. There were 1528 cases from benign breast lesions and 504 cases from the malignant breast lesions. The most common lesion found histologically was fibro-adenoma in 950 cases. Others included 150 cases of inflammatory breast diseases of which 36 cases were diagnosed as tuberculosis, 386 cases as fibrocystic disease and 42 cases as other benign neoplastic diseases. Out of 504 malignant cases 456 had carcinoma and 48 had sarcoma. Only 30 cases of male breast lesions were sent of which only a single case of infiltrating duct carcinoma was found, 28 cases had gynaecomastia and one case showed the evidence of fibrocystic disease.