An American text-book of genito-urinary diseases, syphilis and diseases of the skin . Fig. 221.—Syphilitic liver: a, recent gummatous formation; b, thickened connective-tissue stroma;c, liver-cells practically normal; d, minima, showing peripheral area of round-cell infiltration; e, cheesycenter; /, liver-cells more or less infiltrated with small round-cells. numerous and extensive, the cicatricial tissue developed during their healingwill produce great deformity of the liver. Earely the gummata break down,soften, and liquefy, and may form fluctuating tumors. (3) Glissons capsule or sheath may
An American text-book of genito-urinary diseases, syphilis and diseases of the skin . Fig. 221.—Syphilitic liver: a, recent gummatous formation; b, thickened connective-tissue stroma;c, liver-cells practically normal; d, minima, showing peripheral area of round-cell infiltration; e, cheesycenter; /, liver-cells more or less infiltrated with small round-cells. numerous and extensive, the cicatricial tissue developed during their healingwill produce great deformity of the liver. Earely the gummata break down,soften, and liquefy, and may form fluctuating tumors. (3) Glissons capsule or sheath may be the principal seat of syphilitic in-vasion, resulting in a thickening of the capsule, as well as in the connective 688 SYPHILIS OF THE LIVER. tissue between the lobules and in the portal canals. This is really an inter-stitial hepatitis or cirrhosis. Pathology.—The pathology of tertiary hepatic syphilis has beenreferred to at some length in the preceding paragraph. As a matter of fact,interstitial hepatitis caused by syphilis cannot be conclusively differentiatedfrom the s
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