title: Pediatric gastric lymphoma: a rare entity.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Hémato-oncologie pédiatrique, CHR Citadelle-Liège-Belgique, Belgium.
authors.forename: Caroline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jacquemart
authors.forename: Ornella
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Guidi
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Etienne
authors.forename: Rene
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Delrez
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Forget
authors.forename: Marie Francoise
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Dresse
authors.forename: Gisèle
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Depas
authors.forename: Laurence
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: de Leval
authors.forename: Claire
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hoyoux
mesh_terms: 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*
chemical_list: D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18