1.   Surgical specimens Two surgical specimens were examined.

2.   Tumours of this size are not identified clinically except incidentally in surgical specimens removed because of benign prostatic hyperplasia.

3.   The surgical specimen, however, proved to be benign.

4.   Eventually the correct diagnosis was made in seven patients after repeated endoscopic biopsies, open biopsy or examination or surgical specimens.

5.   For example, the same proportions of RP and control patients had histological evidence of ileitis on review of their surgical specimens.

6.   A large clinicopathological study based on the review of surgical specimens has recently confirmed results from previous shorter series.

7.   Two surgical specimens were examined.

8.   A review of the surgical specimen showed that the gastric mucosa contained very numerous lymphoid follicles with follicular centres suggestive of benign lymphoid infiltration.