An American text-book of genito-urinary diseases, syphilis and diseases of the skin . ] * Fig. 218.—Syphilis of lungs: a, thickened alveolar walls or stroma ; b. partly longitudinal section ofhronchus; c, uuinfiltrated alveoli; d, new connective tissue infiltrated with small round-cells; e, cellslining alveoli; /, artery showing thickened walls ; g, desquamated lining cells. Then, again, there may be a diffuse hepatization, being either lobar orlobular in character, and may be either grayish or white or red. In suchcases the pulmonary alveoli are filled with epithelial cells, and the pa
An American text-book of genito-urinary diseases, syphilis and diseases of the skin . ] * Fig. 218.—Syphilis of lungs: a, thickened alveolar walls or stroma ; b. partly longitudinal section ofhronchus; c, uuinfiltrated alveoli; d, new connective tissue infiltrated with small round-cells; e, cellslining alveoli; /, artery showing thickened walls ; g, desquamated lining cells. Then, again, there may be a diffuse hepatization, being either lobar orlobular in character, and may be either grayish or white or red. In suchcases the pulmonary alveoli are filled with epithelial cells, and the parietesshow a round-cell infiltration. White infarcts may be produced by an oblit-erating endarteritis of the terminal branches of the bronchial artery. Symptomatology.—The main symptoms are cough, with or withoutmuco-purulent or bloody sputum and dyspnea. The amount of the latterwill depend upon the amount of lung-tissue involved, unless the walls of oneor more large bronchi are the seat of extensive cicatrices. The symptomsmay closely resemble those of pulmonary tuberculosis, although t
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