Copyright © 2011 by University of Nebraska–Lincoln, all rights reserved. Redistribution or republication in any medium, except as allowed under the Fair Use provisions of U.S. copyright law, requires express written consent from the editors and advance notification of the publisher, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
CASE 43.—Post-mortem examination: Left lung hepatized
throughout except anterior margin of upper lobe; lower part
of right lower lobe impervious, much of the remainder
congested; but little pleuritic effusion; pleura in
several places much inflamed, especially near the
pericardium. Several ounces of limpid serum in the
pericardial sac. Liver cirrhosed, atrophied, dense,
mammillated, puckered.—