Systemic BCG‐osis following intravesical BCG instillation for bladder carcinoma

Intravesical instillation of Bacillus Calmette‐Guérin (BCG) has been shown to be an effective form of immunotherapy for bladder cancer. This case report describes a patient who develops systemic BCG‐osis following intravesical BCG instillation and demonstrates the importance of being aware of more s...

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Autores principales: Liaw, Frank, Tan, Yan Yu, Hendry, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5628231/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29026546
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1129
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description Intravesical instillation of Bacillus Calmette‐Guérin (BCG) has been shown to be an effective form of immunotherapy for bladder cancer. This case report describes a patient who develops systemic BCG‐osis following intravesical BCG instillation and demonstrates the importance of being aware of more severe complications associated with BCG immunotherapy.
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spelling pubmed-56282312017-10-12 Systemic BCG‐osis following intravesical BCG instillation for bladder carcinoma Liaw, Frank Tan, Yan Yu Hendry, David Clin Case Rep Case Reports Intravesical instillation of Bacillus Calmette‐Guérin (BCG) has been shown to be an effective form of immunotherapy for bladder cancer. This case report describes a patient who develops systemic BCG‐osis following intravesical BCG instillation and demonstrates the importance of being aware of more severe complications associated with BCG immunotherapy. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-08-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5628231/ /pubmed/29026546 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1129 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Systemic BCG‐osis following intravesical BCG instillation for bladder carcinoma
title Systemic BCG‐osis following intravesical BCG instillation for bladder carcinoma
title_full Systemic BCG‐osis following intravesical BCG instillation for bladder carcinoma
title_fullStr Systemic BCG‐osis following intravesical BCG instillation for bladder carcinoma
title_full_unstemmed Systemic BCG‐osis following intravesical BCG instillation for bladder carcinoma
title_short Systemic BCG‐osis following intravesical BCG instillation for bladder carcinoma
title_sort systemic bcg‐osis following intravesical bcg instillation for bladder carcinoma
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5628231/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29026546
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1129
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