[A rare complication of antineoplastic BCG therapy: pulmonary tuberculosis].
PMID 11774792 · La Tunisie medicale · 2001
Authors: S Fenniche; H Hasséne; S Attia; L Fkih; S Bousnina; K Cheikh; D Belhabib; M L Megdiche
Abstract
Local treatment with intra vesical BCG for bladder carcinoma have few complications. Pulmonary side effects are rare, like interstitial pneumonitis. We report a case of a 77-year-old man, treated with BCG for bladder carcinoma who developed illness and tumoral chest-X-ray opacity. Mycobacterium tuberculosis bovis was isolated in culture and 2 years after in sputum. Physio pathologic mechanism of pulmonary features remains controversial, however this case suggest that lung lesions can be result of an infection process.
Aged; Antineoplastic Agents; BCG Vaccine; Humans; Male; Mycobacterium bovis; Sputum; Tuberculosis, Pulmonary; Urinary Bladder Neoplasms
Cite
S Fenniche; H Hasséne; S Attia; L Fkih; S Bousnina; K Cheikh; D Belhabib; M L Megdiche. [A rare complication of antineoplastic BCG therapy: pulmonary tuberculosis]. La Tunisie medicale (2001). PMID 11774792.