Open AccessPleural Effusion Caused by Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Immunotherapy for Bladder Cancer
Author(s) -
Tara Rachakonda,
B. Kendall,
Adam M. Spivak,
Jonathan Boltax
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
open forum infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.546
H-Index - 35
ISSN - 2328-8957
DOI - 10.1093/ofid/ofx126
Subject(s) - medicine , bladder cancer , pleural effusion , immunotherapy , cancer immunotherapy , lung cancer , cancer , cancer research , pathology
Intravesical bacillus Calmette Guérin (BCG) instillation has been used as immunotherapy for early stage bladder cancer for >40 years. Complications from this therapy are rare but may result in a spectrum of infectious sequelae. Here we describe the case of an elderly man who presented with a pleural effusion and subcutaneous nodule several years after treatment with BCG.
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