Calcification of axillary lymph nodes following BCG vaccination

Axillary lymph node calcification was found in 18 children following BCG vaccination. Five of these also had symptomatic adenitis. The calcifications involved one to four nodes and appeared as discrete, oval densities. They disappeared over the course of several months in three patients. No axillary lymph node calcification was seen on chest radiographs of 60 other children who had had BCG vaccination in the neonatal period.