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Pleural Effusion Caused by Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Immunotherapy for Bladder Cancer

Intravesical bacillus Calmette Guérin (BCG) instillation has been used as immunotherapy for early stage bladder cancer for >40 years. Complications from this therapy are rare but may result in a spectrum of infectious sequelae. Here we describe the case of an elderly man who presented with a pleu...

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Autores principales: Rachakonda, Tara, Kendall, Brian, Spivak, Adam M, Boltax, Jonathan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5534218/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28761898
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx126

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