Acute polyarthritis following the use of Corynebacterium parvum vaccine (Coparvax) for malignant pleural effusion
- 1 December 1983
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Postgraduate Medical Journal
- Vol. 59 (698) , 799-800
- https://doi.org/10.1136/pgmj.59.698.799
Abstract
Summary: 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.Keywords
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