AMYLOID DEGENERATION IN 3 CASES OF LEPRA PATIENT

Abstract

The clinical, anatomical state and histological picture of amyloid degeneration in three cases of lepra patient.
1) One case showed ham spleen, and other two cases sago spleen. All of three cases were of the panamyloidosis with amyloid degeneration in liver, adrenal gland, accessory spleen and other organs.
2) The cause of amyloid degeneration of two cases was to be attributed to the anomaly of metabolismus by the destructions of lepromatous tissues.
As other one case was lepra nervosa, the cause was not clearly decided.
3) The part where amyloid substance sat was chiefly connective tissues or reticular fiber of the vessel-wall, and those fibers to which this substance set became degen- erated by degrees disapp eared and at last were replaced with amyloid substance.