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Case Reports
. 2011 Sep 20;183(13):1511-4.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.101853. Epub 2011 Jun 13.

Attenuated but live: a pelvic abscess caused by bacille Calmette-Guerin

Jerome A Leis  1 , Daniel R Ricciuto, Wayne L Gold
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Case Reports

Attenuated but live: a pelvic abscess caused by bacille Calmette-Guerin

Jerome A Leis et al. CMAJ. .
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Figure 1:
Gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging of the pelvis of a 64-year-old man with fever, chills and scrotal pain, within one month after intravesical instillation of bacille Calmette–Guérin for transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder. (A) Coronal view showing active gadolinium extravasation from the bladder to an abscess in the left adductor muscles (arrow). (B) Axial view showing the presence of a multifocal collection anterior to the symphysis pubis.
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