BCG-induced pneumonitis with lymphocytic pleurisy in the absence of elevated KL-6

BACKGROUND: Pneumonitis is a rare complication of bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) immunotherapy seen in patients with urothelial cancer following the repeated administration of BCG. However, no case of BCG-induced pleurisy has been reported. CASE PRESENTATION: We here report the first case of pneumon...

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Autores principales: Tobiume, Makoto, Shinohara, Tsutomu, Kuno, Takahira, Mukai, Shinji, Naruse, Keishi, Hatakeyama, Nobuo, Ogushi, Fumitaka
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3975859/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24593234
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2466-14-35

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3975859/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24593234
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2466-14-35

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