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Interobserver agreement in the application of the Sydney system to reversibility of gastritis after H. pylori was good. More strict criteria should be used for atrophy and to differentiate normal and mild chronic inflammation.

Clinicopathologic correlation offive cases ofcystadenomas of the liver are reported. All patients were female and radical surgical procedure, total excision or resection was performed four times, and partial excision once. In all patients the postoperative course was uneventful and they are all alive and well. Examined by conventional histological and special immuno-histochemical stains the tumors fulfilled diagnostic criteria for these rare cystic growths. The cyst wall was composed of three, histologically distinct layers. From the viewpoint of histogenesis and differential diagnosis immunohistochemical properties were analysed. CEA and EMA were demonstrated in epithelial cells and Vimentin in stromal cells.

The case is reported of a 27 year old woman who had mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) associated with chronic active hepatitis and thyroiditis. Although hepatomegaly is sometimes observed in MCTD, only four cases of MCTD and chronic active hepatitis have been described. It is thought that this is the first report of an association between MCTD, chronic active hepatitis and thyroiditis.The association of mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) and autoimmune hepatitis is rare. Only a few cases have been reported.1-3 MCTD associated with thyroiditis has not yet been described and it is suggested that the following case is the first example of a patient with MCTD and autoimmune hepatitis and thyroiditis.