Burkitt’s lymphoma masquerading as appendicitis – two case reports and review of the literature

Two cases of Burkitt’s lymphoma masquerading as appendicitis are reported herein. The diagnoses were made post-operatively from the appendix specimen in one case and from an ileocecal resection specimen for cecal fistula complicating an appendicectomy in the second case. These cases highlight the im...

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Autores principales: Weledji, Elroy P, Ngowe, Marcelin N, Abba, John S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4075545/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24942062
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-12-187
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description Two cases of Burkitt’s lymphoma masquerading as appendicitis are reported herein. The diagnoses were made post-operatively from the appendix specimen in one case and from an ileocecal resection specimen for cecal fistula complicating an appendicectomy in the second case. These cases highlight the importance of routine histological examination of appendicectomy specimens.
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spelling pubmed-40755452014-07-01 Burkitt’s lymphoma masquerading as appendicitis – two case reports and review of the literature Weledji, Elroy P Ngowe, Marcelin N Abba, John S World J Surg Oncol Case Report Two cases of Burkitt’s lymphoma masquerading as appendicitis are reported herein. The diagnoses were made post-operatively from the appendix specimen in one case and from an ileocecal resection specimen for cecal fistula complicating an appendicectomy in the second case. These cases highlight the importance of routine histological examination of appendicectomy specimens. BioMed Central 2014-06-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4075545/ /pubmed/24942062 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-12-187 Text en Copyright © 2014 Weledji 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 credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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