Burkitt Lymphoma with Multiorgan Involvement

Burkitt lymphoma with cutaneous involvement.

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...

[Follicular lymphoma with paraneoplastic autoimmune multiorgan syndrome].

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Diagnosis of Burkitt Lymphoma

Clinical presentation in extranodal and nodal sites of rapidly expanding masses in high-risk populations suggests Burkitt lymphoma (BL). Most patients present with advanced disease because of the rapid rate of tumor growth. BL cells have a remarkably short doubling time. Children in equatorial Africa and Papua New Guinea have endemic BL and present with facial tumors in the jaw or orbit, abdomi...