Mycotic aneurysm of the popliteal artery as a complication of intravesical BCG therapy for superficial bladder cancer: Case report and literature review

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 430-432

  Witjes, J A ^a   Vriesema, J L J ^a   Brinkman, K ^a   Bootsma, G ^a   Barentsz, J O ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

BCG; Bladder cancer; Complication; Mycotic aneurysm

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; LIVER ENZYME; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; BLADDER BIOPSY; BLADDER CARCINOMA; BLADDER OBSTRUCTION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CYSTOSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPENIA; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECHOGRAPHY; FEVER; GRANULOMATOUS HEPATITIS; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY ABSCESS; KNEE DISEASE; KNEE PAIN; LIVER BIOPSY; MALAISE; MALE; MYCOTIC ANEURYSM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORCHITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMONIA; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATITIS; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SIDE EFFECT; SUPERFICIAL CANCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER OBSTRUCTION; VASCULAR SURGERY; X RAY;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVESICAL; AGED; ANEURYSM, INFECTED; BCG VACCINE; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; HUMANS; MALE; POPLITEAL ARTERY; TUBERCULOSIS, CARDIOVASCULAR; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0345059347     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000074100     Document Type: Review

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