Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 4 (of 5)Law, James
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Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 4 (of 5)
Law, James
Veterinary medicine
In the _nasal mucosa_ the bacilli form prolific colonies at different
points of the membrane and submucosa with the active production of
lymphoid cells, followed by granular fatty degeneration and ulceration.
Hence may be found different lesions representing the different stages.
First there may be miliary deposits with clear contents and standing out
like grains of sand. Then there are the larger pea-like nodules with
congested vessels and minute hæmorrhages, but made up largely of the
nests of lymphoid cells. These may bear on the surface a distinct blood
extravasation, or the epithelium may be raised from the corium layer by
a liquid exudation. The more advanced nodules show the centre light
colored, grayish or yellowish with a distinct granular degeneration of
the cells. Later still the degeneration involves the superficial layers
and epithelium and an open ulcer is formed with a strong tendency to
extend in depth and width. The formation and degeneration of numerous
foci of cell proliferation gives the ulcer a very uneven outline. The
continuous growth of fresh centres of proliferation may cause marked
elevations between the ulcers, constituting extended patches, or the
entire nasal mucosa may be thickened as the result of the morbid
deposit. The cicatrices resulting from the apparent healing of deep or
extensive ulcers or from a fibroid, transformation of the neoplasm
consist of condensed connective tissue with small scattered nests of
lymphoid cells and bacilli. In chronic cases the bacilli are very
scanty.
The mucosa of the _Eustachian pouches and tubes, the larynx, trachea and
bronchia_ often present lesions similar to those of the pituitary
membrane.
The _lungs_ are usually marked in chronic cases by circumscribed lobular
pneumonia, interlobular and peribronchial inflammations and miliary or
larger areas of degeneration resembling tubercles. These may begin as a
minute congestion and ecchymosis, which later shows in the centre a
translucent or gray mass of lymphoid cells, with a surrounding area of
congestion. Later still this central mass becomes yellowish and caseated
from granular and fatty degeneration and this gradually extends so as to
involve the whole area of the nodule. The peripheral portion may
condense into a fibroid envelope, but usually this is less smooth and
evenly rounded than in the case of an inspissated abscess or
bladder-worm. The bacilli are found in the affected tissue but not
always abundantly.
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