Psoas abscess following intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guerin for bladder cancer: a case report.

Hakim, S; Heaney, J A; Heinz, T; Zwolak, R W · J Urol · 1993

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

An 87-year-old man with an abdominal aortic aneurysm received intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guerin therapy for transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder. He presented 9 months later with a psoas abscess that mimicked a contained retroperitoneal abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture. The abscess cultures yielded Mycobacterium bovis. Recent transurethral resection and high voiding pressures after instillations of bacillus Calmette-Guerin may have led to distant dissemination of the drug.

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