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[Granulomatous prostatitis as collateral effect of intravesical immunotherapy with BCG]
F M Mattei1, V Giovannelli, L Schepis
1Istituto di Anatomia e Istologia Patologica, Università degli Studi di Siena.
Abstract:
Twenty-five male patients with superficial bladder cancer underwent intravesical Bacillus Calmette Guerin immunotherapy. A high incidence of side effects has occurred using three different substrains of BCG. Our interest has been focused on BCG related granulomatous prostatitis: we have found four asymptomatic patients with histologically diagnosed disease. We suppose therefore that its incidence is underestimated.