Complications of Intravesical BCG Immunotherapy for Bladder Cancer

Daniel B Green1, Akira Kawashima1, Christine O Menias1

  • 1From the Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, 525 E. 68th St, Box 141, New York, NY 10065 (D.B.G.); Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, Ariz (A.K.) and Phoenix, Ariz (C.O.M.); Department of Radiology, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama, Japan (T.T.); Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY (G.R.S.); Department of Radiology, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Mo (S.B.); Departments of Radiology and Medicine, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell, North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, NY (R.S.); and Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn (B.F.K.).

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