Tuberculous aortitis with a tuberculous mycotic aneurysm and an aortoduodenal fistula was diagnosed in a 38-year-old man with tuberculous cervical lymphadentitis and a 3-month history of recurrent gastrointestinal bleeding, in whom extensive investigation of the digestive tract had not revealed a bleeding lesion. Either by septic embolism or by direct extension from a neighboring focus, tuberculous infection can cause a mycotic aortic aneurysm with subsequent fistulation to the duodenum.
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