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Successful Management of Jejunal Perforation in Burkitt's Lymphoma: A Case Report

Burkitt's lymphoma (BL) is rare, rapidly growing, and highly aggressive. Urgent commencement of chemotherapy is vital to prevent complications and promote a favourable prognosis. Any factor causing a delay in the initiation of chemotherapy will affect prognosis significantly. Intestinal perfora...

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Autores principales: Finch, David A., Wilson, Malcolm S., O'Dwyer, Sarah T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3457601/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23024879
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/230538
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description Burkitt's lymphoma (BL) is rare, rapidly growing, and highly aggressive. Urgent commencement of chemotherapy is vital to prevent complications and promote a favourable prognosis. Any factor causing a delay in the initiation of chemotherapy will affect prognosis significantly. Intestinal perforation is a well-known complication with devastating consequences. It inevitably leads to a delay in the initiation of chemotherapy. There are few reports in the literature that discuss this complication. Furthermore, there are no reports of patients that have survived intestinal perforation occurring prior to the commencement of chemotherapy. We present a case of a 55-year-old male who survived perforation of advanced sporadic BL of the jejunum occurring prior to the commencement of chemotherapy. Critical aspects of the patients care are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-34576012012-09-28 Successful Management of Jejunal Perforation in Burkitt's Lymphoma: A Case Report Finch, David A. Wilson, Malcolm S. O'Dwyer, Sarah T. Case Rep Surg Case Report Burkitt's lymphoma (BL) is rare, rapidly growing, and highly aggressive. Urgent commencement of chemotherapy is vital to prevent complications and promote a favourable prognosis. Any factor causing a delay in the initiation of chemotherapy will affect prognosis significantly. Intestinal perforation is a well-known complication with devastating consequences. It inevitably leads to a delay in the initiation of chemotherapy. There are few reports in the literature that discuss this complication. Furthermore, there are no reports of patients that have survived intestinal perforation occurring prior to the commencement of chemotherapy. We present a case of a 55-year-old male who survived perforation of advanced sporadic BL of the jejunum occurring prior to the commencement of chemotherapy. Critical aspects of the patients care are discussed. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-09-17 /pmc/articles/PMC3457601/ /pubmed/23024879 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/230538 Text en Copyright © 2012 David A. Finch et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Successful Management of Jejunal Perforation in Burkitt's Lymphoma: A Case Report
title_sort successful management of jejunal perforation in burkitt's lymphoma: a case report
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