Histopathological study of lung lesions in lung biopsy specimens in a tertiary care centre

Lung cancer is one of the most common malignant neoplasms worldwide, accounting for more deaths than any other cancer cause1.In our population, Lung cancer was reported to be the second most common malignancy in one hospital-based study2 Hukkah smoking was found to be highly prevalent in the lung cancer patients of another small study of 25 hospitalized. Materials and Methods: A 2 year retrospective study was carried out in the Department of Pathology, Government Medical College Srinagar. The histopathological records were retrospectively reviewed for CT guided and Endobronchial biopsies of lung lesions between July 2018 to June 2020. There were 238 cases during this period. Results: A total of 238 cases were studied. 92 of these cases were reported as non-neoplastic (table 1). The age varied from 15 to 87 years. Tuberculosis was found to be the commonest non neoplastic pathology among the cases studied and constituted about (29 cases) of non-neoplastic pathology.146 out of 238 cases were reported as neoplastic. Conclusion: To conclude, in our study malignancies predominated over non neoplastic lesions in incidence among young as well as in old patients. The most common histological cell type encountered in this study was Squamous Cell Carcinoma which is against the changing trend in West where Women were increasingly diagnosed with Lung cancer having adenocarcinoma. Granulomatous inflammation with Tuberculosis was the most common non neoplastic lesion followed by nonspecific inflammation.