Burkitt's lymphoma mimicking EBV disease as first sign of vertical HIV infection in an adolescent

Burkitt's Lymphoma (BL) rarely represents the first clinical manifestation of vertical HIV infection in adolescent in Western Europe. We report the case of a 17 year-old boy with two week history of fever and enlarged cervical lymph nodes firstly misdiagnosed as EBV infection, subsequently diag...

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Autores principales: Santilli, Veronica, Mora, Nadia, Aquilani, Angela, Tchidjou, Hyppolite K, Pontrelli, Giuseppe, De Vito, Rita, Lombardi, Alessandra, Bernardi, Stefania, Palma, Paolo
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2873400/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20416074
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1824-7288-36-34
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author Santilli, Veronica
Mora, Nadia
Aquilani, Angela
Tchidjou, Hyppolite K
Pontrelli, Giuseppe
De Vito, Rita
Lombardi, Alessandra
Bernardi, Stefania
Palma, Paolo
author_facet Santilli, Veronica
Mora, Nadia
Aquilani, Angela
Tchidjou, Hyppolite K
Pontrelli, Giuseppe
De Vito, Rita
Lombardi, Alessandra
Bernardi, Stefania
Palma, Paolo
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description Burkitt's Lymphoma (BL) rarely represents the first clinical manifestation of vertical HIV infection in adolescent in Western Europe. We report the case of a 17 year-old boy with two week history of fever and enlarged cervical lymph nodes firstly misdiagnosed as EBV infection, subsequently diagnosed as Burkitt's Lymphoma and vertical HIV infection.
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spelling pubmed-28734002010-05-20 Burkitt's lymphoma mimicking EBV disease as first sign of vertical HIV infection in an adolescent Santilli, Veronica Mora, Nadia Aquilani, Angela Tchidjou, Hyppolite K Pontrelli, Giuseppe De Vito, Rita Lombardi, Alessandra Bernardi, Stefania Palma, Paolo Ital J Pediatr Case report Burkitt's Lymphoma (BL) rarely represents the first clinical manifestation of vertical HIV infection in adolescent in Western Europe. We report the case of a 17 year-old boy with two week history of fever and enlarged cervical lymph nodes firstly misdiagnosed as EBV infection, subsequently diagnosed as Burkitt's Lymphoma and vertical HIV infection. BioMed Central 2010-04-23 /pmc/articles/PMC2873400/ /pubmed/20416074 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1824-7288-36-34 Text en Copyright ©2010 Santilli et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case report
Santilli, Veronica
Mora, Nadia
Aquilani, Angela
Tchidjou, Hyppolite K
Pontrelli, Giuseppe
De Vito, Rita
Lombardi, Alessandra
Bernardi, Stefania
Palma, Paolo
Burkitt's lymphoma mimicking EBV disease as first sign of vertical HIV infection in an adolescent
title Burkitt's lymphoma mimicking EBV disease as first sign of vertical HIV infection in an adolescent
title_full Burkitt's lymphoma mimicking EBV disease as first sign of vertical HIV infection in an adolescent
title_fullStr Burkitt's lymphoma mimicking EBV disease as first sign of vertical HIV infection in an adolescent
title_full_unstemmed Burkitt's lymphoma mimicking EBV disease as first sign of vertical HIV infection in an adolescent
title_short Burkitt's lymphoma mimicking EBV disease as first sign of vertical HIV infection in an adolescent
title_sort burkitt's lymphoma mimicking ebv disease as first sign of vertical hiv infection in an adolescent
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2873400/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20416074
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1824-7288-36-34
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