Mycobacterial Brain Tuberculomas due to Bacille Calmette-Guérin Intravesical Chemotherapy for Bladder Cancer: A Case Report and Literature Review
Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunotherapy is widely used for the treatment of superficial bladder cancer. The authors believe that the present report is one of the first to document cerebral BCG tuberculoma in a 73-year-old immunocompetent man, three years after intra-vesical BCG immunotherapy. Hi...
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| description | Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunotherapy is widely used for the treatment of superficial bladder cancer. The authors believe that the present report is one of the first to document cerebral BCG tuberculoma in a 73-year-old immunocompetent man, three years after intra-vesical BCG immunotherapy. His workup revealed no identifiable extracranial source. He responded well to treatment with rifampin, ethambutol and moxifloxacin. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3b0d4bfd83ce4276bdebcde26c8ab65b2025-02-03T01:26:39ZengWileyCanadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology1712-95322011-01-0122310410610.1155/2011/869286Mycobacterial Brain Tuberculomas due to Bacille Calmette-Guérin Intravesical Chemotherapy for Bladder Cancer: A Case Report and Literature ReviewVitaly Golub0Prashant Malhotra1Shital Patel2Sections of Infectious Diseases and Radiology, North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, New York, USASections of Infectious Diseases and Radiology, North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, New York, USASections of Infectious Diseases and Radiology, North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, New York, USABacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunotherapy is widely used for the treatment of superficial bladder cancer. The authors believe that the present report is one of the first to document cerebral BCG tuberculoma in a 73-year-old immunocompetent man, three years after intra-vesical BCG immunotherapy. His workup revealed no identifiable extracranial source. He responded well to treatment with rifampin, ethambutol and moxifloxacin.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/869286 |
| spellingShingle | Vitaly Golub Prashant Malhotra Shital Patel Mycobacterial Brain Tuberculomas due to Bacille Calmette-Guérin Intravesical Chemotherapy for Bladder Cancer: A Case Report and Literature Review Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology |
| title | Mycobacterial Brain Tuberculomas due to Bacille Calmette-Guérin Intravesical Chemotherapy for Bladder Cancer: A Case Report and Literature Review |
| title_full | Mycobacterial Brain Tuberculomas due to Bacille Calmette-Guérin Intravesical Chemotherapy for Bladder Cancer: A Case Report and Literature Review |
| title_fullStr | Mycobacterial Brain Tuberculomas due to Bacille Calmette-Guérin Intravesical Chemotherapy for Bladder Cancer: A Case Report and Literature Review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mycobacterial Brain Tuberculomas due to Bacille Calmette-Guérin Intravesical Chemotherapy for Bladder Cancer: A Case Report and Literature Review |
| title_short | Mycobacterial Brain Tuberculomas due to Bacille Calmette-Guérin Intravesical Chemotherapy for Bladder Cancer: A Case Report and Literature Review |
| title_sort | mycobacterial brain tuberculomas due to bacille calmette guerin intravesical chemotherapy for bladder cancer a case report and literature review |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/869286 |
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