Systemic granulomatous reaction secondary to treatment of bladder cancer with bacillus calmette-guerin.
Intravesical instillation of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin is the elective treatment for transitional cell and in situ bladder carcinoma. Severe complications occur very seldom, but must be known and promptly recognized. We describe the case of a 48-year-old man, treated with chemo-immunotherapy ten years before for a follicular lymphoma, who developed a systemic granulomatous reaction after his twelfth intravescical BCG instillation for bladder cancer.
Institute of Hematology, Catholic University, Rome.
Caterina Giovanna
CG
Valentini
Valentina
V
Bozzoli
Anna Rita
AR
Larici
Luigi Maria
LM
Larocca
Giovanni
G
Delogu
Giuseppe
G
Leone
Livio
L
Pagano