Paper # 096

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Thymic microenvironmental changes in human congenital syphilis

Eliene C. Fonseca, Mônica P. Almeida, Évlin H. Maia, Dora M. F. Menezes and Wilson Savino*

[Title] [Introduction] [Materials and Methods] [Results] [Discussion] [Pictures] [Bibliography]

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	Congenital syphilis. Basement membrane thickening, entrapping cellular nests near intralobular fibrotic area. Gomori's reticulin, 400 x.
	Congenital syphilis. Basement membrane thickening and apparently doubled, entrapping cellular nests near intralobular fibrotic area. Gomori's reticulin, 400 x.
	Congenital syphilis. Basement membrane thickening and apparently doubled. Indirect immunofluorescence, antibody anti-laminin, 250x.
	Congenital syphilis. Thymic epitelial cell network. Immunoperoxidase, antibody anti-cytokeratin wide spectrum, 100 x.
	Congenital syphilis. Altered thymic epitelial cell network in a small lobule with lymphocyte depletion. Immunoperoxidase, antibody anti-cytokeratin wide spectrum, 400 x.

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• Title
• Introduction
• Materials and Methods
• Results
• Pictures
• Discussion
• Bibliography