BCGitis: A rare complication after intravesical BCG therapy
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BCGitis: A rare complication after intravesical BCG therapy
In most cases, bladder carcinoma is located superficially, and the therapeutic approach is usually transurethral resection followed by intravesical therapy (chemotherapy or immunotherapy).(1,2) Initially produced as a vaccine against tuberculosis, BCG—an attenuated strain of Mycobacterium bovis—has been widely used in immunotherapy over the last decades.(1,3) Although BCG, used as immunotherapy...
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عنوان ژورنال: Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1806-3713
DOI: 10.1590/s1806-37132015000000126