Extensive wall thickening in intestinal Burkitt lymphoma.
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate intestinal lesions in Burkitt lymphoma.


METHODS
Ultrasonography was used in the initial evaluation of 6 Japanese patients with intestinal Burkitt lymphoma.


RESULTS
Ultrasonography revealed marked wall thickening of the colon from the cecum through either the ascending or the transverse colon, which led to a target sign (4 cases) or a pseudokidney sign (2 cases). The target sign histopathologically corresponded to invagination of an occult tumor of the cecum into the ascending colon. Wall thickening of the colon when associated with a target or pseudokidney sign corresponded to marked lymph edema or a diffuse infiltration of Burkitt lymphoma cells into the intramural layers, respectively


CONCLUSIONS
Ultrasonography provides useful information in the initial evaluation of intestinal lesions with distinctive histopathologic characteristics in Burkitt lymphoma.
Asai
Satomi
S
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Kanagawa, Japan.
Miyachi
Hayato
H
Hara
Makiko
M
Fukagawa
Satomi
S
Shimamura
Kazuo
K
Ando
Yasuhiko
Y
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002051:Burkitt Lymphoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D002432:Cecum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D002648:Child; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014463:Ultrasonography