Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) spondylitis with adjacent mycotic aortic aneurysm after intravesical BCG therapy: a case report and literature review

BACKGROUND: Although intravesical bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) therapy is accepted as an effective treatment for bladder cancer, serious complications may occur in rare cases. To date, only 4 cases have been reported in which the patient developed a combination of mycotic aortic aneurysm and BCG sp...

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Autores principales: Kusakabe, Takuya, Endo, Kenji, Nakamura, Itaru, Suzuki, Hidekazu, Nishimura, Hirosuke, Fukushima, Shinji, Yamamoto, Kengo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6025820/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29954321
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-018-3205-7

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