Difficulties in Diagnosing and Treating Disseminated Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) Infection After Intravesical BCG Therapy in a Patient with Liver Cirrhosis: A Case Report

Christos Vallilas; Maria Zachou; Philippos Dolkiras; Stratigoula Sakellariou; Costas A. Constantinou; Pagona Flevari; Amalia Anastasopoulou; Theodoros Androutsakos

doi:10.12659/AJCR.933006

16 October 2021 : Case report Greece

Difficulties in Diagnosing and Treating Disseminated Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) Infection After Intravesical BCG Therapy in a Patient with Liver Cirrhosis: A Case Report

Challenging differential diagnosis, Adverse events of drug therapy, Rare coexistence of disease or pathology

Christos Vallilas^1BCDE, Maria Zachou^2BCDE, Philippos Dolkiras^3BDE, Stratigoula Sakellariou^4BDE, Costas A. Constantinou^5BCDE, Pagona Flevari^6DE, Amalia Anastasopoulou^7CDEF, Theodoros Androutsakos^8ABCDEF*

DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.933006

Am J Case Rep 2021; 22:e933006

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Figure 2. Liver biopsy. (A) Small histiocytic granuloma with a Langhans-type giant cell in a portal tract (arrow). Mild portal inflammation is also evident (HE ×200). (B) Small histiocytic granuloma with a Langhans-type giant cell located in the parenchyma (arrow) (HE ×400).

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Difficulties in Diagnosing and Treating Disseminated Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) Infection After Intravesical BCG Therapy in a Patient with Liver Cirrhosis: A Case Report

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