Nonendemic Burkitt lymphoma presenting with an atypical clinical picture.
Primary appendiceal Burkitt lymphomas are rare occurring in 0.015% of all gastrointestinal lymphomas. Presentation of such lymphomas with peritonitis and obstructive jaundice owing to its subhepatic location is even more unusual. Burkitt lymphoma is very rare in children below 5 years old. We will present a 3-year-old boy with primary appendiceal lymphoma whose first symptom was obstructive jaundice caused by a ruptured retrocecal subhepatic appendix which in essence is a combination of all 3 mentioned occurrences complicated with acute abdomen.
Papandreou
Evangelos
E
2nd Department of Pediatric Surgery, Hematology-Oncology Unit, Athens University Medical School, Pathology Department, Aghia Sophia Children's Hospital, Athens, Greece. epapmed@yahoo.gr
Gentimi
Fotini
F
Baltogiannis
Nikolaos
N
Tzovaras
Alexandros
A
Geroulanos-Christopoulos
Georgios
G
Karamolegou
Kaliopi
K
Stephanaki
Kaliopi
K
Moschovi
Maria
M
D001063:Appendiceal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D002051:Burkitt Lymphoma / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D041781:Jaundice, Obstructive / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography