Granulomatous hepatitis following intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guerin therapy

International Urology and Nephrology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 49-53

  Ozbakkaloglu B ^a   Tunger O ^a   Surucuoglu S ^a   Lekili, M ^a   Kandiloglu, A R ^a  

^a CELAL BAYAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; BLADDER CARCINOMA; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTOSCOPY; ECHOGRAPHY; GRANULOMATOUS HEPATITIS; HEMATURIA; HEPATOMEGALY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAVESICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALE; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVESICAL; BCG VACCINE; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; GRANULOMA; HEPATITIS; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033022847     PISSN: 03011623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007119706336     Document Type: Article

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