Male 63 years

Colon. Alternating diarrhoea and constipation and abdominal pain ... haemorrhoids and colonic polyp ... 3mm sessile polyp in proximal transverse - removed by cold snare and retrieved.

Macro: colonic biopsy.

Female 67 years

Stomach. Fundal polyp ?varices ?GIST Subepithelial lesion arising just below GOJ and extending for 20mm. Uniformly hypoechoic.

Macro: gastric biopsies.

Male 74 years

Stomach. Gastritis. Urease positive for helicobacter pylori. Normal oesophagus and duodenum.

Macro: gastric biopsies.

Male 38 years

Anus. Large perianal wart.

Macro: warty skin 23x23x13mm.

Male 50 years

Oesophagus. Dysphagia. Trachealisation of the oesophagus, more pronounced in upper and mid oesophagus. Grade 1 oesophagitis at GOJ.

Macro: oesophageal biopsies.

Male 20 years

Colon: biopsies from appendiceal orifice. Known ulcerative colitis, mildly active. Symptoms settle completely with enemas and therefore stopped taking them and then symptoms returned. Rectum inflamed oedematous and bled on contact. The rest of the colon looked macroscopically normal until the appendix orifice which again was inflamed. TI looks normal. (NB histology of multiple biopsies from rest of colon and ileum entirely normal. Rectal biopsies show acute and chronic inflammation and crypt distortion only).

Macro: colonic biopsies.

Male 55 years

Stomach. Reflux symptoms. A couple of harmless gland polyps (one biopsied to confirm).

Macro: 4mm polyp.

Male 81 years

Gall bladder. Subtotal cholecystectomy.

Macro: A segment of gallbladder including body and fundus measuring 5.4 x 3.3cm. The serosa appears congested. There are no gallstones in the lumen or the pot. The mucosa appears focally congested. The wall has a maximum thickness of 1.2cm and has cystic areas at the fundus.

Female 77 years

Osophagus. Known squamous HGD dysplasia at least on previous bx within the middle oesophagus. Stomach and duodenum - Normal. TGF 38cm. 2% Lugol's iodine staining with nodularity at 29 - 31cm and pink sign 28 to 33cm. Extensive hemicircumferential EMR (5 bands).

Macro: Four irregular pieces of roughened mucosa ranging from 0.7 x 0.5 x 0.4cm up to 1.2 x 0.9 x 0.4cm.

Female 42 years

Colon. Altered bowel habits tending towards diarrhoea. Normal examination to terminal ileum. Right and left colon biopsies taken to exclude microscopic colitis (these are 'right colon' biopsies).

Macro: colonic biopsies.