• Thorac Cardiovasc Surg · Apr 2014

    Case Reports

    Parasternal mass revealing as a postvaccinal Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-elicited sternal osteomyelitis.

    • Hyo Yeong Ahn, Yeong Dae Kim, So Eun Jeon, Seong Shik Park, Su Eun Park, In Suk Lee, and Kyoung Woon Choi.
    • Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Republic of Korea.
    • Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Apr 1; 62 (3): 258-60.

    AbstractAlthough osteomyelitis is a very rare complication of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination, sternal osteomyelitis as a late complication of BCG vaccination diagnosed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in a child is described.We might consider BCG osteomyelitis in the case of osteomyelitis without bacterial isolation within a year after BCG vaccination, the absence of pulmonary foci, and a contact to the patient with tuberculosis.Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York.

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