ABSTRACT
Aorto-bronchial fistula is a rare etiology of hemoptysis. We related an observation of aorto-bronchial fistula from a tuberculous origin in a 40 years old man. The patient was treated for tuberculous miliary during four months and was admitted for hemoptysis. A chest radiograph showed a posterior madiastinal mass. Computed tomography of the chest and aortography made the diagnosis of an important thrombosed aneurism of the thoracic aorta Tuberculosis origin was suspected with history of miliary, the vertebral lesions, the paravertebral fuseau and was confirmed by histology
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Humans , Male , Female , Bronchial Fistula/diagnosis , Aorta/pathology , Tuberculosis, Miliary , TuberculosisABSTRACT
In the past 16 months, 92 patients have been treated percutaneously for intraabdominal abscesses. 10 have had a psoas abscess, 6 of them are primary, all diagnosed by ultrasonography. Once the diagnosis was established the primary abscesses were treated successfully by percutaneous drainage guided by ultrasonography [catheter size from 0 to 24F]. catheter drainage averaged 10 days accompanied by appropriate antibiotics. One catheter for each patient was usefull. There was no complication