Parasternal Mass Revealing as a Postvaccinal Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG)-Elicited Sternal Osteomyelitis

Abstract

Although 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.

Keywords

chest wall - infection - molecular biology - pathology - tuberculosis

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