TUBERCULOUS MESARTERITIS WITH ANEURYSM OF THE FEMORAL ARTERY

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Abstract
Tuberculous arteritis as the result of the direct extension from a tuberculous process to the small arteries in a body organ is not of sufficient clinical importance to merit reporting. These lesions are considered an integral part of the primary disease, whether it is tuberculosis of the lung, kidney or any other part of the body. Such lesions do not give rise to signs or symptoms per se, with the result that a diagnosis cannot be made except by examination of the microscopic sections. An arteritis in these small visceral vessels in an organ the seat of tuberculosis is of no clinical importance, moreover, as such lesions do not alter the course of the primary disease. The tuberculous invasion of an artery of moderate or large size, however, initiates a train of events that leads to the formation of distinct disease entities, which are often diagnosed clinically and which overshadow

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