Gumma of the liver in congenital syphilis.

Modern methods of serological testing for syphilis in pregnancy combined with highly efficient antisyphilitic therapy should now be making congenital syphilis a relatively rare disease. In addition, past reports have frequently emphasized the ease with which gummata of the liver, and, indeed, elsewhere, may be misdiagnosed. In these circumstances unusual manifestations of this condition are more than ever likely to be missed, and for this reason we feel our recent experience with gumma of the liver should be described.