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  • Title: [Multisystem disease caused by BCG imitating miliary tuberculosis].
    Author: Tsikonov I, Yeshurun D, Naschitz JE.
    Journal: Harefuah; 1999 Feb 15; 136(4):271-3, 339. PubMed ID: 10914215.
    Abstract:
    As the prevalence of tuberculosis is on the rise in western countries, we present a 79-year-old man who developed a pulmonary tuberculosis-like syndrome following immunotherapy with BCG for carcinoma of the urinary bladder. The symptoms subsided following 3-drug antitubercular treatment, and the addition of steroids following negative cultures for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The course of this disease, named BCG-osis, is much more favorable than miliary tuberculosis, even with milder treatment. It is important to keep in mind this phenomenon now that there is increasing treatment of cancers with BCG.
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