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PAGEpress, Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases, 1(4), p. e2012040, 2012

DOI: 10.4084/mjhid.2012.040

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Systemic Granulomatous Reaction Secondary to Treatment of Bladder Cancer with Bacillus Calmette-Guerin

Journal article published in 2012 by Caterina Giovanna Valentini, Valentina Bozzoli, Anna Rita Larici ORCID, Luigi Maria Larocca, Giovanni Delogu ORCID, Giuseppe Leone ORCID, Livio Pagano
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Abstract

Intravesical instillation of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin is the elective treatment for transitional cell and in situ bladder carcinoma. Severe complications occur very seldom, but must be known and promptly recognized. We describe the case of a 48-year-old man, treated with chemo-immunotherapy ten years before for a follicular lymphoma, who developed a systemic granulomatous reaction after his twelfth intravescical BCG instillation for bladder cancer.