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REPORT OF A CASE

JAMES N. OWENS, Jr., M.D.; ALLAN D. BASS, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1944;74(6):413-415.

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Tuberculous aneurysm of the abdominal aorta is exceedingly uncommon. Twenty cases were collected by Gellerstedt and Säfwenberg in 1933,¹ at 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." . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NASHVILLE, TENN.

From the Department of Pathology and the Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

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