Miliary tuberculosis presenting as bilateral superficial femoral artery mycotic aneurysm in an immunocompetent patient

Mycotic tuberculous aneurysm is extremely rare. The aorta is the main affected artery however; iliac and less commonly femoral arteries can also be affected. In 75% of the cases a contagious focus leads to infection through erosion of the vessel wall; on the other hand direct seeding of the blood ve...

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Autores principales: Elzein, Fatehi, Qatan, Nabeel, Alghamdi, Abdullah, Albarrak, Ali, Kalam, Kiran
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6365391/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30775239
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2019.01.020

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6365391/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30775239
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2019.01.020

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