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Miliary pulmonary infection after BCG intravesical instillation: a rare, misdiagnosed and mistreated complication
Giorgio Calleris1, Giancarlo Marra1, Silvia Corcione2
1University of Turin, AOU "Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino", Department of Surgical Sciences, Urology, Turin, Italy.
Abstract:
Intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunotherapy decreases the progression risk of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer, but potentially yields a broad spectrum of side effects. We report the case of a 73-year-old man affected by miliary pulmonary BCG infection, whose microbiological diagnosis was probably hindered by empiric fluoroquinolones, focusing on imaging and clinical work-up.
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