A Case of Tuberculous Prostatitis with Abscess

We present a case of acute prostatitis with abscess. The patient had undergone intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunotherapy for bladder cancer. A prostate biopsy demonstrated tuberculous prostatitis with abscess. This case illustrates that when bladder cancer is treated with BCG, a tube...

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Autores principales: Doo, Seung Whan, Kim, Jae Heon, Yang, Won Jae, Kim, Soon Im, Lee, Dong Wha, Hong, Seong Sook, Song, Yun Seob
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society for Sexual Medicine and Andrology 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3623522/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23596601
http://dx.doi.org/10.5534/wjmh.2012.30.2.138
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author Doo, Seung Whan
Kim, Jae Heon
Yang, Won Jae
Kim, Soon Im
Lee, Dong Wha
Hong, Seong Sook
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description We present a case of acute prostatitis with abscess. The patient had undergone intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunotherapy for bladder cancer. A prostate biopsy demonstrated tuberculous prostatitis with abscess. This case illustrates that when bladder cancer is treated with BCG, a tuberculous prostate abscess can develop.
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spelling pubmed-36235222013-04-17 A Case of Tuberculous Prostatitis with Abscess Doo, Seung Whan Kim, Jae Heon Yang, Won Jae Kim, Soon Im Lee, Dong Wha Hong, Seong Sook Song, Yun Seob World J Mens Health Case Report We present a case of acute prostatitis with abscess. The patient had undergone intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunotherapy for bladder cancer. A prostate biopsy demonstrated tuberculous prostatitis with abscess. This case illustrates that when bladder cancer is treated with BCG, a tuberculous prostate abscess can develop. Korean Society for Sexual Medicine and Andrology 2012-08 2012-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC3623522/ /pubmed/23596601 http://dx.doi.org/10.5534/wjmh.2012.30.2.138 Text en Copyright © 2012 Korean Society for Sexual Medicine and Andrology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Doo, Seung Whan
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Kim, Soon Im
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Song, Yun Seob
A Case of Tuberculous Prostatitis with Abscess
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5534/wjmh.2012.30.2.138
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