Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology of Male Breast Lesions – A Retrospective Study Over a Six Year Period

Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology of Male Breast Lesions- A Descriptive Study Over a Period of Five Years

“…In our study, 55 out of 68 cases (80.9%) were of gynaecomastia and was observed more on the right side, this was in contrast to the studies conducted by Das et al 8 Kirana Pailoor et al 10 found 75% cases of gynaecomastia in a study of 40 cases of FNAC of male breast lesions, Jagannath et al 11 found 91% cases of gynaecomastia in a study of 112 cases of FNAC of male breast lesions, which was almost similar to the result found in our study.…”

Plasma Cell Mastitis In Men: A Single-center Experience and Review of the Literature

“…They performed an average of two core biopsy samplings per male patient aged between 40 and 70 years old with unilateral breast lesion, and diagnosed 105 cases of true gynecomastia (93%), two of breast cancer, one of chronic mastitis and one of breastmetastatic head and neck lymphoma (28). Core biopsy, compared with fine-needle aspiration cytology, is more sensitive and specific in the evaluation of breast lesions in men (29). It allows a differential diagnosis between mastitis, gynecomastia and malignant neoplasia, and steers the clinician towards a correct therapeutic approach.…”

Clinicopathological characteristics of male breast lesion: An experience in a regional cancer center, Odisha

“…Hence, multi-institutional prospective study regarding awareness, screening, epidemiology, and further management is needed for better understand of this rare disease in our region. [25] MacIntosh et al [24] Wauters et al [26] Pailoor et al [6] Present study …”

“…Hence, a study has strongly recommended the use of FNAC as the first-line investigation in the clinical evaluation of male breast lumps. [6] Studies also shown that use of FNA can allow diagnosis to be made with a sufficient degree of confidence which can spare the patient an invasive surgical procedure. [23] In our series, the total number of patients who underwent FNAC for the assessment of a breast lump was 6319 over a 7 years period with males constituting 2.50%.…”

“…[5] The study has shown, fine needle aspiration cytology FNAC has been proved as a reliable, safe, costeffective, early, and presumptive screening method in female breast lesion but the diagnosis of male breast lesion by this method is not yet well experienced yet. [6] Hence, we aimed to analyze the role of FNAC in the diagnosis of male breast lesion and to know the prevalence of male breast lesion and MBC with their clinicopathological characteristics in the Acharya Harihar Regional Cancer Centre, Cuttack, Odisha, India.…”