TY - JOUR AU - Valentini, Caterina Giovanna AU - Bozzoli, Valentina AU - Larici, Anna Rita AU - Larocca, Luigi Maria AU - Delogu, Giovanni AU - Leone, Giuseppe AU - Pagano, Livio PY - 2012/06/18 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Systemic granulomatous reaction secondary to treatment of bladder cancer with Bacillus Calmette-Guerin JF - Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases JA - Mediterr J Hematol Infect Dis VL - 4 IS - 1 SE - Case Reports DO - 10.4084/mjhid.2012.040 UR - https://www.mjhid.org/mjhid/article/view/2012.040 SP - e2012040 AB - <p>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.</p> ER -