Female 26 years

Missed miscarriage with retained products.

Macroscopic description:
Haemorrhagic fragments together 70 x 70 x 30, no foetal parts seen.

Specimen: Uterine contents

Female 35 years

Neck remnants.

Macroscopic description:
Four irregular pieces of grey-lightbrown tissue measuring 5-53mm. The largest piece contains an open cysts, 12mm, partly calcified.

Specimen: Subcutaneous tissue

Female 73 years

Post menopausal bleeding. Never had a cervical smear.

Macroscopic description:
Blood and soft tissue 0.7cm diameter.

Specimen: Cervical biopsy

Female 27 years

Tumour right side of palate.

Macroscopic description:
Rounded nodule 1 x 0.6 x 0.6cm.

Specimen: Lump from palate

Female 62 years

History of diarrhoea. Previous episode seven months previously. Colitis? pseudomembranous? ischaemic. Macroscopically normal.

Macroscopic description:
4 tissue fragments measuring up to 2mm in diameter.

Specimen: Colonic biopsy

Female 60 years

Anaemia and weigh loss with antigliadin abs.

Macroscopic description:
3 biopsies up to 2mm.

Specimen: Duodenal biopsy

Male 36 years

Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, multiple polyps.

Macroscopic description:
Polyp 13 x 10 x 6mm on a pedicle 6mm long.

Specimen: Sigmoid polyp

Male 65 years

Biopsy of left tongue base. Remarkably few symptoms, clinically benign.

Macroscopic description:
Multiple pieces of pale nodular tissue, the largest 40mm max dimension.

Specimen: Mass on tongue

Male 20 years

Cyst excised from right arm.

Macroscopic description:
Pale and cream coloured tissue 9 x 9 x 5mm.

Specimen: Skin biopsy

Female 51 years

Completion proctectomy for ulcerative colitis (previous subtotal colectomy).

Macroscopic description:
Distal large bowel specimen with diffuse mucosal granularity. Section from nodule in mesorectal wall.

Specimen: Proctectomy