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Luetic lymphadenitis describes lymph node pathological modifications induced by infection with spirochetes of Treponema pallidum or syphilis. Additionally designated as syphilitic lymphadenitis, the infective lymphadenitis displays characteristic morphological features as significant capsular fibrosis with peri-capsular dissemination of chronic inflammatory cells, follicular hyperplasia with innumerable plasma cells, phlebitis with endarteritis and occasionally discerned, inadequately configured epithelioid cell granulomas.

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