Pediatric gastric lymphoma: a rare entity.
Primary gastric lymphoma is a rare event in childhood. We describe a 13-year-old boy with gastric Burkitt-like lymphoma localized in the fundus. Symptoms mimicking gastritis-epigastric pain, hypochromic anemia, anorexia, and weight loss had been present for a few months before diagnosis. No Helicobacter pylori infection was shown at diagnosis. Biopsies obtained by ultrasound gastroscopy proved the diagnosis; F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography detected an isolated large gastric hypermetabolic mass. According to the international FAB/LMB 96 trial, the patient was treated with chemotherapy alone and is in first complete remission 2(1/2) years after diagnosis.
Jacquemart
Caroline
C
Hémato-oncologie pédiatrique, CHR Citadelle-Liège-Belgique, Belgium.
Guidi
Ornella
O
Etienne
Isabelle
I
Delrez
Rene
R
Forget
Patricia
P
Dresse
Marie Francoise
MF
Depas
Gisèle
G
de Leval
Laurence
L
Hoyoux
Claire
C
D000293:Adolescent; D002051:Burkitt Lymphoma / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology*; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D016481:Helicobacter Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D016480:Helicobacter pylori / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology*
D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18