Cold abscess of the chest wall as an unusual complication of BCG vaccination
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Protective Efficacy and Pulmonary Immune Response Following Subcutaneous and Intranasal BCG Administration in Mice
Published on: September 19, 2016
Olgun Kadir Aribas1, Fikret Kanat, Niyazi Gormus
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Meram Medical School of Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey. olgun@selcuk.edu.tr
Abstract:
Bacillus-Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination often results in local adverse effects; however, serious or long-term complications are rare. The involvement of sternum among skeletal BCG osteomyelitis is a rarely seen complication of BCG vaccination. Such a complication may confuse with a chest wall tumor and a surgical intervention may be needed for the definite diagnosis. A 9-month-old infant who had a parasternal cold abscess in the anterior chest wall and sternal osteomyelitis of tuberculosis in the late period of BCG vaccination of whom the etiological diagnosis was histopathologically confirmed after surgery is presented and the preoperative diagnostic problems are discussed.
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