Distant cutaneous granulomas after Bacille Calmette-Guerin immunotherapy for malignant melanoma: Case for direct infection

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1569-1570

  Moff, Stephen L ^a   Corey, G Ralph ^a   Gottfredsson, Magnus ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; MALE; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN GRANULOMA; SKIN INFLAMMATION; TUMOR REGRESSION;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BCG VACCINE; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LEG DERMATOSES; MALE; MELANOMA; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TUBERCULOSIS, CUTANEOUS;

EID: 0033395598     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/313543     Document Type: Article

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