Abstract

GONZALEZ ALVAREZ, José Ridal et al. Abdominal Burkitt lymphoma. Rev Ciencias Médicas [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.2, pp. 337-344. ISSN 1561-3194.

Burkitt's lymphoma is a type of uncommon non-Hodgkin lymphoma, affecting mainly children and adolescents. A white male teen, 12 years of age, presents with previous health record, epigastric pain, cramping of some days of length, which was increasing, unchanged coughing, sneezing or changes in position, irradiated to the right iliac fossa, without vomiting, fever or other symptoms. Imaging, endoscopic and histological studies were performed. He was diagnosed with a colon tumor, removed later on. Burkitt lymphoma is a rare entity that requires clinical observation and combining several imaging methods to come close to the suspected diagnosis, and represents a big challenge, so we alert pediatricians to suspect of abdominal pain and abdominal tumors.

Keywords : Burkitt lymphoma [abdominal pain]; Child.

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