A porous sintered body for an Al-Ti alloy solid electrolytic capacitor comprises a porous body of Al-Ti alloy and a titanium lead wire partly embedded in the porous body. The titanium lead wire is subjected during manufacture to a nitriding treatment and is sintered together with the Al-Ti body so that the surface of the lead wire is converted into an Al-Ti alloy. In one method of producing the porous sintered body, a titanium wire is heat-treated in a nitrogen atmosphere, the wire is then embedded in a mixture of aluminium powder and titanium powder or titanium hydride powder, the mixture is press-moulded with the wire and the press-moulded article is sintered. A solid electrolytic capacitor and a method for manufacturing such a capacitor employing the porous sintered body are disclosed. The invention provides a porous sintered body with an embedded lead wire in which the lead wire is inexpensive and has good electrical characteristics and which avoids the problem of bending deformation of the wire after sintering.