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Original Articles

Miliary Tuberculosis Following Intravesical BCG Treatment

Rajni Sinha Department of Medicine, Pennsylvania Hospital, 1 Pine West, 800 Spruce Street, 19017, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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John J. Stern Division of Infectious Diseases, Pennsylvania Hospital, 1 Pine West, 800 Spruce Street, 19017, Philadelphia, PA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 131-136 | Received 12 Sep 2003, Accepted 22 Sep 2003, Published online: 16 Jul 2015
 

Abstract

Intravesical instillation of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin for the treatment of bladder carcinoma uncommonly causes miliary tuberculosis. We describe a case of pulmonary tuberculosis caused by BCG immunotherapy and review of 11 cases of miliary tuberculosis related to this form of treatment previously reported in the literature.

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