TUBERCULOUS ANEURYSM OF THE ABDOMINAL AORTA
- 1 December 1944
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 74 (6) , 413-415
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1944.00210240003001
Abstract
Tuberculous aneurysm of the abdominal aorta is exceedingly uncommon. Twenty cases were collected by Gellerstedt and Säfwenberg in 1933,1at which time they added 1 case of their own. In none of these 21 cases was the abdominal aneurysm due to a blood-borne infection, but it resulted from erosion of the aorta by a tuberculous process in an adjacent lymph node. In only 2 of these cases were tubercle bacilli found in the media of the aorta.2 This case report is presented as an instance of (1) a tuberculous aneurysm of the aorta which was not associated with adjacent caseous nodes and (2) an aneurysm in which acid-fast bacilli were demonstrated in the media of the vessel wall. History. —This was the first admission to Vanderbilt University Hospital of a 72 year old white housewife, who entered on Oct. 12, 1943, with the chief complaint of "abdominal pain."This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: