Burkitt lymphoma with cutaneous involvement

Burkitt lymphoma with cutaneous involvement.

Hodgkin's lymphoma with cutaneous involvement.

We report a case of a 22-year-old previously healthy woman with Hodgkin's lymphoma who presented initially with multiple lymphadenopathy and later, with a solitary cutaneous ulcer. Unlike Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma subtypes, skin involvement of Hodgkin's lymphoma is extremely rare. The prognosis of Hodgkin's lymphoma with skin infiltration is felt to be extremely poor. Contrary to other reports, th...

hodgkin's lymphoma with cutaneous involvement

cutaneous hodgkin’s lymphoma is a rare disease (0.5% to 3.4%) which tends to be in the setting of an advanced disease and has a poor prognosis. treatment of patients with cutaneous involvement of hodgkin’s lymphoma is according to dissemination of disease (systemic or localized therapy). the majority of data in this context are based on individual case reports or literature reviews. we have rep...

Adult abdominal Burkitt lymphoma with isolated peritoneal involvement.

Burkitt lymphoma is a fast-growing high grade B-cell neoplasm that rarely affects adults. Three clinical variants are described in the World Health Organization classification: endemic, sporadic, and immunodeficiency-associated. The non-endemic form typically presents as an abdominal mass in children. Symptoms usually occur due to mass effect or direct intestinal involvement. We describe a very...

Sporadic Burkitt Lymphoma: A Case Report

Introduction: Burkitt lymphoma is an aggressive subtype of Hodgkin lymphoma with a doubling time of 25 hours. It is characterized by a MYC gene coding alteration which results from a translocation of chromosome 8 on the MYC gene locus and immunoglobulin heavy-chain locus (IGH) on chromosome 14. Even though HIV infection is associated to an increased risk of Burkitt lymphoma, th...