Use of Fine-Needle Aspiration in the Evaluation of Breast Lumps

Table 1

Age of the patients presenting with lump breast.

Age in years (𝑛=425)	Inadequate	Inadequate on first repeat	Inadequate second repeat	Benign lesions		Suspicious for malignancy	Malignant
				Inflammatory	Benign proliferative lesions
A; 16–20 (𝑛=23)	4	1	0	4 (4.7%)	10 (5.8%)	6 (16.6%)	3 (2.3%)
B; 21–30 (𝑛=76)	12	2	0	10 (11.8%)	50 (29.2%)	3 (8.3%)	13 (10%)
C; 31–40 (𝑛=166)	27	5	1	52 (61%)	79 (46%)	7 (20%)	27 (20.6%)
D; 41–50 (86)	23	4	0	14 (16.5%)	30 (17.5%)	11 (30.5%)	31 (23.6%)
E; 51–60 (𝑛=53)	17	5	1	5 (5.8%)	2 (1.2%)	7 (20%)	38 (29%)
F; 61–70 (𝑛=16)	2	1	0	0	0	1 (2.8%)	15 (11.5%)
G; <70 years (𝑛=5)	1	0	0	0	0	1 (2.8%)	4 (3%)
Total	86	18	2	85 (20%)	171 (40%)	36 (8.4%)	131 (31%)

Note: the number of repeat increased the diagnosis of aspirates which is statistically significant (𝑃=.000).