Sporadic Burkitt Lymphoma Presenting as Acute Pancreatitis, Concurrent Sinusitis, and Enlarged Adenoids

Pancreatitis and sinusitis as presentations of Burkitt lymphoma are uncommon and rarely described in children. We describe here the case of a child who presented with symptoms suggestive of sinusitis unresponsive to antibiotics, with subsequent development of abdominal symptoms due to pancreatitis....

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Autores principales: Mahajan, Vasudha, Qian, You-Wen, Blake, Brooke, Rojas-Khalil, Yesenia, Radhakrishnan, Ravi S., Muthukumar, Akila
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4860250/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27213067
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/3862175
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author Mahajan, Vasudha
Qian, You-Wen
Blake, Brooke
Rojas-Khalil, Yesenia
Radhakrishnan, Ravi S.
Muthukumar, Akila
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description Pancreatitis and sinusitis as presentations of Burkitt lymphoma are uncommon and rarely described in children. We describe here the case of a child who presented with symptoms suggestive of sinusitis unresponsive to antibiotics, with subsequent development of abdominal symptoms due to pancreatitis. He was eventually diagnosed with Burkitt lymphoma.
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spelling pubmed-48602502016-05-22 Sporadic Burkitt Lymphoma Presenting as Acute Pancreatitis, Concurrent Sinusitis, and Enlarged Adenoids Mahajan, Vasudha Qian, You-Wen Blake, Brooke Rojas-Khalil, Yesenia Radhakrishnan, Ravi S. Muthukumar, Akila Case Rep Pediatr Case Report Pancreatitis and sinusitis as presentations of Burkitt lymphoma are uncommon and rarely described in children. We describe here the case of a child who presented with symptoms suggestive of sinusitis unresponsive to antibiotics, with subsequent development of abdominal symptoms due to pancreatitis. He was eventually diagnosed with Burkitt lymphoma. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-04-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4860250/ /pubmed/27213067 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/3862175 Text en Copyright © 2016 Vasudha Mahajan et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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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Mahajan, Vasudha
Qian, You-Wen
Blake, Brooke
Rojas-Khalil, Yesenia
Radhakrishnan, Ravi S.
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Sporadic Burkitt Lymphoma Presenting as Acute Pancreatitis, Concurrent Sinusitis, and Enlarged Adenoids
title Sporadic Burkitt Lymphoma Presenting as Acute Pancreatitis, Concurrent Sinusitis, and Enlarged Adenoids
title_full Sporadic Burkitt Lymphoma Presenting as Acute Pancreatitis, Concurrent Sinusitis, and Enlarged Adenoids
title_fullStr Sporadic Burkitt Lymphoma Presenting as Acute Pancreatitis, Concurrent Sinusitis, and Enlarged Adenoids
title_full_unstemmed Sporadic Burkitt Lymphoma Presenting as Acute Pancreatitis, Concurrent Sinusitis, and Enlarged Adenoids
title_short Sporadic Burkitt Lymphoma Presenting as Acute Pancreatitis, Concurrent Sinusitis, and Enlarged Adenoids
title_sort sporadic burkitt lymphoma presenting as acute pancreatitis, concurrent sinusitis, and enlarged adenoids
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4860250/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27213067
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/3862175
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