Sunita B Patil

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Congenital Intestinal atresia is common cause of neonatal intestinal obstructions. Small intestinal atresia accounts for majority of cases than colonic atresia. In small intestinal atresia Type I is rare form. The plausible etiology is mainly from intra-uterine mesenteric vascular accident and the extent depends on the time and the site of development of obstruction. A 2-day-old baby with history of maternal antenatal scan suspecting of Hirschsprung’s disease presented with clinical signs of lower intestinal obstruction. Barium enema showed features of distal small intestine obstruction for which baby underwent surgery with resection of obstructed segment with end to end anatomises was done. Type I small intestinal atresia was confirmed on histological examination. Thus intestinal obstruction is an emergency encountered in newborn infants requiring early accurate diagnosis by radio imaging modalities and histopathological evaluation. Keywords: Intestinal obstruction, Small intestine atresia, Histopathology.

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Introduction: Thyroid lesions usually present as mass lesions or in association with hypo or hyper thyroidism. FNAC has certain limitations like adequacy of specimen and interpretation of cytology, as the sampling of the lesion can be variable and not always representative. Hence, specific diagnosis can be arrived at only after a histopathological examination. Objectives: The present study was undertaken to describe histopathology patterns, frequency, age and sex distribution of non-neoplastic thyroid gland lesions in the southwest region of Maharashtra to aid clinicians in appropriate treatment and prognosis. Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional study of 110 non-neoplastic thyroid specimens received at the department of Pathology, D.Y. Patil Medical College, Kolhapur, between October 2018 to September 2020. Results: The frequency of non-neoplastic thyroid lesions was found to be 2% of all surgical specimens. Most commonly encountered specimens were of Hemithyroidectomy (31.8%) Female predominance with F:M ratio of 2.5:1 was seen. Most of the lesions occurred in the 4t h decade. Out of the 110 cases, most common lesions were hyperplastic (74.5%), followed by inflammatory lesions (21.8%) and congenital lesions (3.7%). Evaluation of any thyroid specimen should be thorough through complete histopathological examination. Conclusion: Histopathological evaluation of any enlarged thyroid should be thorough to arrive at a definite diagnosis. Keywords: Thyroid, Nonneoplastic lesions, Histopathology, Goitre.

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Epithelial carcinoma accounts for more than 95% of ovarian malignancy. Approximately 15% of all ovarian tumours are mucinous. Approximately 80% of the mucinous tumour are benign, 10% are borderline and 10% are invasive carcinomas. Hence bilateral invasive mucinous carcinoma is a rare type of tumour with low incidence. In our case, a 37 years old woman presented with irregular menses, oligomenorrhea, pain in abdomen and abdominal distension. Radiological studies suggested endometriotic cysts however on histopathological examination, it revealed mucinous cystadenocarcinoma in both ovary. Thus histopathology is gold standard for definitive diagnosis. Keywords: Mucinous ovarian tumor bilateral mucinous cystadenocarcinoma histopathology ovarian epithelial tumour

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