infectious diseases
Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis (TB)
Other sites of TB infection
TB may infect the wall of a blood vessel and has even ruptured the aorta. Adrenal involvement, leading to Addison disease, was common but now is rare. Tubercle bacilli may spread to tendon sheaths (tuberculous tenosynovitis) by direct extension from adjacent lesions in bone or hematogenously from any infected organ. 