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Burkitts’s lymphoma – an atypical presentation

BACKGROUND: In female adolescents and young adults, malignancies of the genital tract are the most frequent type of cancer, closely followed by Hodgkin’s and non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas. CASE PRESENTATION: We report an unusual case of sporadic Burkitt’s lymphoma (BL) presenting with massive bilateral ov...

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Autores principales: Ziade, Farah, von der Weid, Nicolas, Beck-Popovic, Maja, Nydegger, Andreas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3439712/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22866970
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-12-113
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author Ziade, Farah
von der Weid, Nicolas
Beck-Popovic, Maja
Nydegger, Andreas
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description BACKGROUND: In female adolescents and young adults, malignancies of the genital tract are the most frequent type of cancer, closely followed by Hodgkin’s and non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas. CASE PRESENTATION: We report an unusual case of sporadic Burkitt’s lymphoma (BL) presenting with massive bilateral ovarian infiltration, peritoneal carcinomatosis and diffuse nodular lesions of the stomach and the intestine mimicking Krukenberg tumor. Diagnostic biopsies were obtained by endoscopy of the upper gastrointestinal tract. With intensive chemotherapy, complete remission was rapidly achieved, without life-threatening tumor lysis syndrome. CONCLUSION: Besides metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma, BL is an important differential diagnosis in adolescents presenting with Krukenberg tumor.
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spelling pubmed-34397122012-09-13 Burkitts’s lymphoma – an atypical presentation Ziade, Farah von der Weid, Nicolas Beck-Popovic, Maja Nydegger, Andreas BMC Pediatr Case Report BACKGROUND: In female adolescents and young adults, malignancies of the genital tract are the most frequent type of cancer, closely followed by Hodgkin’s and non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas. CASE PRESENTATION: We report an unusual case of sporadic Burkitt’s lymphoma (BL) presenting with massive bilateral ovarian infiltration, peritoneal carcinomatosis and diffuse nodular lesions of the stomach and the intestine mimicking Krukenberg tumor. Diagnostic biopsies were obtained by endoscopy of the upper gastrointestinal tract. With intensive chemotherapy, complete remission was rapidly achieved, without life-threatening tumor lysis syndrome. CONCLUSION: Besides metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma, BL is an important differential diagnosis in adolescents presenting with Krukenberg tumor. BioMed Central 2012-08-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3439712/ /pubmed/22866970 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-12-113 Text en Copyright ©2012 Ziade 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.
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Beck-Popovic, Maja
Nydegger, Andreas
Burkitts’s lymphoma – an atypical presentation
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title_full Burkitts’s lymphoma – an atypical presentation
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title_short Burkitts’s lymphoma – an atypical presentation
title_sort burkitts’s lymphoma – an atypical presentation
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3439712/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22866970
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-12-113
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