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- Title
Acute polyarthritis following the use of Corynebacterium parvum vaccine (Coparvax) for malignant pleural effusion.
- Authors
Lever, A. M.; Forsythe, J.; Oxford, P.
- Abstract
A 77-year-old man with a malignant pleural effusion was treated by aspiration of fluid and injection of Corynebacterium parvum vaccine for pleurodesis. Within 24 hr he had developed a temperature and a neutropenia followed by an acute crippling polyarthritis of his hands and wrists which subsequently responded to oral steroids and non-steroidal antiinflammatory drugs.
- Publication
Postgraduate Medical Journal, 1983, Vol 59, Issue 698, p799
- ISSN
0032-5473
- Publication type
journal article