Hepatic abscesses

Hepatic abscesses in a calf. Note the large slowly growing abscesses adherent to the liver and involved by a thick pyogenic membrane. Above, to the right, there is a hypertrophic lymph node and, to the left of the organ, a second, smaller abscess, involved by fibrous tissue. This animal had been a victim of omphalophlebitis complicated, at the time of death, by suppurative pneumonia.