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Pulmonary hamartomas are the most common but rare benign tumor-like lesions of the lung arising from the embryonic rest. They are more common in males and in aged. Majority are asymptomatic and seen as coin lesions with popcorn calcification in the chest radiograph. Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) helps to diagnose and distinguish them from the cancerous lesions of the lung. The cytological material is characterized by fibromyxoid stroma, cartilage, bronchial cells, adipose tissue and bone. Bronchial cells with reactive atypia may be a source of false-positive result. Symptomatic cases need surgical intervention such as enucleation or segmental resection. We report a case of a 74-year-old male who had a lung mass that did not progress over 4-year on chest radiograph. The CT-guided FNAC smears showed benign bronchial epithelial cells, fibro-myxoid spindle cell stroma and fat spaces that aided the diagnosis of pulmonary hamartoma avoiding surgical intervention.

Background: To evaluate tumors involving major and minor salivary glands, histopathology is an essential diagnostic method and is the gold standard. This study was carried out to know the incidence of salivary gland tumors, their clinical presentation and diverse morphological patterns. Materials and Methods: A prospective cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out over a period of two years in the department of pathology, Yenepoya Medical College hospital, Mangalore.Data regarding patient demographicswas also recorded.All the epithelial salivary gland tumors were classified according toWHO (2005) histological classification. Results: In the present study, a total of 65 cases of salivary gland tumours was found and an age range of 10-79 years was observed. The most common site affected was the parotid gland 47 (72.31%).Among the 48 (73.85%) benign tumors, pleomorphic adenoma 40 (61.54 %) was most commontumor and remaining 17(26.15%) cases were malignant, of which mucoepidermoid carcinoma 8 (12.31%) was frequently observed. Conclusion: This study highlights the usefulness of histopathologicalstudy of salivary gland tumors with various morphological patterns of benign and malignant salivary gland tumors, which are of utmost value in planning the further management of the patient.

Human subcutaneous dirofilariasis (HSD) is a rare zoonotic filarial infection caused by filarial worms of the genus Dirofilaria. In view, recent rise in human Dirofilaria repens infections in several regions of the world, is considered as emerging zoonotic infection transmitted to man by zooanthrophilic blood sucking insects. Most of the documented cases of human dirofilariasis recorded in India are ocular infections and very few cases of subcutaneous dirofilariasis have been reported. We hereby present a case of subcutaneous human dirofilariasis of forearm and also emphasize on increased awareness of this entity for clinicians and pathologists in the differential diagnosis of patients with subcutaneous nodules.