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Title: Pediatrics.
Year: 1910 (1910s)
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Subjects: Pediatrics Children Infants Pediatrics Disease Disease
Publisher: New York : Van Publishing
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

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Fig. 3.— First sacral segment showing the intense infiltration of mononuclear cells in the pia mater.
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Fig. 5.—Showing the unusual engorgement of the capillaries in the anterior horn of the cord. PATHOLOGY OF ACUTE POLIOMYELITIS 471 congested than the artery. That the vessel walls are affectedby the virus is shown by the occurrence of hemorrhages. Theyare generally in the gray matter of the cord although in onecase we found them in the cerebral cortex also. As a rule theyare not extensive. Next in importance to the hyperemia and equally char-acteristic at times of the inflammatory process in rabies and toa lesser degree in syphilis, is the so-called perivascular, or better,named intra-adventitial infiltration. It consists of collectionsof small mononuclear round cells which lie in the adventitiallymph spaces. It has not been determined whether the cellsare lymphocytes or are derived from the fixed cells of the ad-ventitia. They are not plasma cells. Capillaries showing thisadventitial infiltration can be found throughout the entirelength of the cord, the pons, medulla, and basal gang

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