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Background: Liver is a site for plethora of diseases among which many become symptomatic while others usually either go undiagnosed or are concealed by other prominent diseases. As said about liver to be the custodian of milieu interior most of the silent liver diseases are diagnosed only on autopsy examination. Aims and objectives was to study various pathological lesions of liver in medicolegal and clinical autopsy cases and to corelate liver diseases with age and sex. Retrospective cross-sectional observational study of 649 medicolegal and clinical autopsies conducted within 2 years of duration (January 2017 to December 2018).Methods: Out of all 649 autopsies conducted in our hospital all liver specimens along with other organs viscera were collected and formalin fixed. After gross examination sections from the liver were submitted for tissue processing and then stained with haematoxylin and eosin stain.Results: The most common pathology found in our study was fatty change (11.1%) followed by venous congestion (4.3%), hepatitis (3.5%), cirrhosis (2.2%), tuberculosis/ granulomatous hepatitis (0.6%), chronic hepatitis (0.3%), malignancy (1%), miscellaneous (2%) and normal (72.4%). Maximum cases were in 21-30 years of age group with male preponderance.Conclusions: Autopsy examination of liver is an effective tool to identify silent liver diseases. Use of autopsy findings along with other investigative techniques.
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Mucinous micropapillary carcinoma of the breast also described as pure mucinous carcinoma with micropapillary pattern has recently come to attention as an unusual form of invasive breast cancer exhibiting dual mucinous and micropapillary diff erentiation. A 70-year-old lady presented with a complaint of a left breast palpable mass detected 4 months earlier. A fi rm well-defi ned mass of size 4 cm × 3 cm was noted with a small focal ulceration. Her past medical records and family history non-contributory. Ultrasonography revealed a well-defi ned lobulated hypoechoic lesion. Micropapillary pattern being an aggressive counterpart in pure mucinous breast carcinoma. It has increased propensity for lymph node metastasis, so it should recognized by characteristic cytological features and histological findings.