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

Table 4

Histopathological diagnosis of suspicious and malignancy smears.

Cytology	Histopathology
	Malignant results									Benign results
	DCIS	IDC	LCIS	ILC	MC	MDC	MTC	Lymph	MPhy	FA	FAN	SCA
Suspicious for malignancy (𝑛=36;8.4%)	15	10	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	1
Malignant lesions (𝑛=131;30.8%)	4	100	2	16	2	1	1	1	4	0	0	0

FA: fibroadenoma, FAN: fibroadenosis, SCA: sclerosing adenosis, DCIS: ductal carcinoma Insitu. IDC: invasive ductal carcinoma, LCIS: lobular carcinoma In situ, ILC: invasive lobular carcinoma, MC: mucinous carcinoma, MDC: medullar carcinoma, MTC: metaplastic carcinoma, Lymph: lymphoma: MPh: malignant phyllodes.