Burkitts lymphoma

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Bur′kitt's lympho′ma

(ˈbɜr kɪts)
n.
a cancer of the lymphatic system characterized by lesions of the jaw or abdomen, mainly affecting children in central Africa.
[after Denis Parsons Burkitt (b. 1911), Irish physician, who identified it in 1957]
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In addition, many cases of Burkitt's lymphoma, a cancer of white blood cells called B cells, have been linked to Epstein-Barr virus.
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As described earlier, GZL shares clinical characteristics of both Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma and Large B Cell Lymphoma (Burkitt's lymphoma and diffuse large B cell lymphoma).
Our patient was diagnosed with Burkitt's lymphoma, which is one of B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas.
Primary gastrointestinal lymphoma represents 1-4% of all gastrointestinal malignancies with Burkitt's lymphoma accounting for 0.3-1.3% of all non-Hodgkin's lymphomas.
12 Oaks Foundation was established in memory of Grayslake resident Matthew Hupp, who died of Burkitt's lymphoma in 2009 at age 13.
Burkitt's lymphoma in nontransplant patients has been reportedly associated with a poor prognosis, and its diagnosis usually necessitates chemotherapy of increasing intensity according to the disease stage.
This case details a rare cause of intussusception secondary to Burkitt's lymphoma. In infants this is often treated with air enema reduction, but in adult populations intussusceptions are normally associated with a lead point and so surgical management is essential [4].
Burkitt's lymphoma of the pancreas presenting as acute pancreatitis.
Burkitt's lymphoma (BL) is an aggressive form of B-cell lymphoma which is endemic in Africa, while in rest of the world non-endemic cases has been reported.
Statistics obtained from South Africa, Nigeria and Libya all point to the low frequency of carcinoma's (10.6%) and a predominance of sarcoma's as the leading oro-facial malignancy diagnosed (31-90%).10-13 Ajayi12 and Chaudhary14 report that amongst the sarcomas, the leading malignancy was Burkitt's lymphoma with a relative frequency of upto 56-88% followed by osteosarcoma (15%).
Based on IHC, 22 cases of NHL were classified further into Burkitt's lymphoma (8 out of 22 cases) (Figure 2), Lymphoblastic lymphoma (7 out of 22 cases) and Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (7 out of 22 cases).
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