Systemic granulomatous reaction secondary to treatment of bladder cancer with Bacillus Calmette-Guerin
Intravesical instillation of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin is the elective treatment for transitional cell and in situ bladder carcinoma. Severe complications occur very seldom, but must be known and promptly recognized. We describe the case of a 48-year-old man, treated with chemo-immunotherapy ten year...
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          | Main Authors: | , , , , , , | 
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| Format: | Article | 
| Language: | English | 
| Published: | PAGEPress Publications
    
        2012-06-01 | 
| Series: | Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases | 
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| Online Access: | http://www.mjhid.org/index.php/mjhid/article/view/395 | 
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| Summary: | Intravesical instillation of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin is the elective treatment for transitional cell and in situ bladder carcinoma. Severe complications occur very seldom, but must be known and promptly recognized. We describe the case of a 48-year-old man, treated with chemo-immunotherapy ten years before for a follicular lymphoma, who developed a systemic granulomatous reaction after his twelfth intravescical BCG instillation for bladder cancer. | 
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| ISSN: | 2035-3006 | 
 
       