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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Valentini CG, Bozzoli V, Larici AR, Larocca LM, Delogu G, Leone G, Pagano L. Are you the author?
Institute of Hematology, Catholic University, Rome.
Reference: Mediterr J Hematol Infect Dis. 2012;4(1):e2012040.
doi: 10.4084/MJHID.2012.040
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 22811789
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