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Title: A Study on Mammography Findings on Clinically Palpable Breast Lesions and Assessing Its Accuracy by Comparing It with Histopathology

Authors: Deepa S, Beenamol S

 DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v8i8.49

Abstract

Introduction:  Incidence of breast cancer is on its rise. Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in India. It is very important to recognise the lesion as benign or malignant. This is very important in deciding the treatment. Mammography is a commonly used imaging modality. The present study aims to find out the accuracy of mammography by comparing it with histopathology.

Materials and Methods: A descriptive study was conducted among 75 female patients above 20 years of age with palpable breast lesions. Patients with advanced carcinoma, history of previous breast biopsy and previously treated cancer are excluded from the study. Designed as diagnostic test evaluation, sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value of the variables were calculated comparing with histolopathological diagnosis. The features of the tests is analyzed by Cohen’s Kappa for statistical agreement with histopathology.

Results: In this study, the overall sensitivity and specificity of mammography obtained are 92%, and 87% respectively for differentiating benign from malignant breast lesions.

Conclusion: This study shows that mammography is useful in characterization of breast masses. Before going for biopsy, screening with mammography must be recommended.

Keywords: Benign, breast lesions, histopathology, malignant, mammograph.

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Corresponding Author

Beenamol S

Additional Professor, Department of Radiodiagnosis, Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India