Abdominal actinomycosisis a chronic suppurative infection caused by actinomyces species commonly misdiagnosed as carcinomatous growth. The infection has a tendency to infiltrate adjacent tissues and is therefore rarely confined to a single organ. Herein, 53 year old male was presenting w ith right subacute intestinal obstruction. Surgery revealed infiltrative bowel mass involving the small bowel mesentry invoving distal ileum, strongly suggestive of malignancy. The patient underwent a right hemicolectomy with oncological principles and the histological examination of the specimen revealed ileocolic actinomycosis. Preoperative diagnosis is difficult to differentiate from malignancy. In any inflammatory or infiltrative bowel mass the differential diagnosis of actinomycosis should be considered and enabling accurate diagnosis.

Background: Breast cancer is the most common female cancer worldwide representing nearly 25% of the population. The study was designed to find the correlation between mammographic screening and histopathology in the diagnosis of malignancy among patients breast disease.Methods: This analytical study was done on 163 patients who came to the General Surgery Out-Patient Department, VMMC, Karaikal were screened. From this, 125 patients who were clinically diagnosed with benign breast disease were further evaluated with mammography. A detailed history, clinical examination, and investigations including mammography, histopathological examination in the operated specimen were done.Results: In the study 10% lump in the central area, 20% in lower inner quadrant, 12% in lower outer quadrant, 22% in upper inner quadrant and 36% in upper outer quadrant. In the study, all the 100 subjects were diagnosed to have a benign lesion in mammogram, in hpe 87% were diagnosed to have benign lesion and 13% were diagnosed to have malignant lesions.Conclusions: Even though BI-RADS 2 and 3 mammography showed the majority of benign lesions, there is an increasing trend of malignancy in higher BI-RADS criteria, on further histopathological examination. Sensitivity, positive predictive value, and diagnostic accuracy are very high for mammographic screening.