"BCGitis": A rare case of tuberculous epididymo-orchitis following intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guérin therapy
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Epididymo-orchitis following intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guérin therapy.
OBJECTIVE To describe a case of epididymo-orchitis that developed four years after treatment with intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) and to review the incidence of this adverse effect. DATA SOURCES Information about the patient was obtained from the medical chart. A MEDLINE search of English-language literature (from January 1976 to April 1999) was conducted. STUDY SELECTION All ca...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Radiology Case Reports
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1943-0922
DOI: 10.3941/jrcr.v6i11.1100