Mycotic Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm After Intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Treatment. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is widely used for the treatment of bladder cancer. We report a case of BCG-associated mycotic thoracic aortic aneurysm that was successfully treated with resection and antimycobacterial therapy.

publication date

  • June 1, 2015

Research

keywords

  • Aneurysm, Infected
  • Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic
  • BCG Vaccine

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84930895477

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.07.083

PubMed ID

  • 26046881

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 99

issue

  • 6