This is known as the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin or BCG vaccine. This vaccine is used to protect people against human tuberculosis. Both vaccine types can leave upper arm scars. Often, a person can ...

The second dose of vaccine was completed without incident. A 45-year-old woman presented to our outpatient clinic with erythema and swelling of her BCG scar on the contralateral arm 4 days after ...

The BCG vaccine is only given once in a lifetime, and is given as an injection in the left upper arm. The vaccination usually leaves a small scar. The BCG vaccine is made from a weakened strain of ...

The vaccination typically leaves a scar, and in most countries is given in the shoulder muscle. However, people who got BCG may still develop latent tuberculosis; that's the kind where you have ...

Ultimately the typical puckered scar is formed which remains for lifetime. The injection site should not be pressed or rubbed. It should not be fomented. Nothing needs to be applied locally.

The results are impressive, even with such a long follow-up period and as few as 45 patients in the mitomycin C arm and 44 patients in the BCG arm. Furthermore, this advantage was sustained over ...