Case 9: Mycotic pseudoaneurysm of the abdominal aorta in association with mycobacterial psoas abscess - A complication of BCG therapy

Radiology

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 81-85

  LaBerge, Jeanne M ^a   Kerlan Jr , Robert K ^a   Reilly, Linda M ^a   Chuter, Timothy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abscess; Aneurysm, aortic; Bacillus Calmette Guerin (BCG); Bladder neoplasms, therapy; Diagnosis please; Muscles, abscess; Muscles, iliopsoas; Mycobacteria; Stents and prostheses

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; IMMUNOLOGICAL ADJUVANT;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; AORTA GRAFT; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEVER; HUMAN; INTRAVESICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOTIC ANEURYSM; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATITIS; PSOAS ABSCESS; SEPSIS; STENT; ANEURYSM; BLADDER TUMOR; FALSE ANEURYSM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; AGED; ANEURYSM, FALSE; ANEURYSM, INFECTED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BCG VACCINE; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; PSOAS ABSCESS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033111086     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.211.1.r99ap4081     Document Type: Article

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