Primary Burkitt Lymphoma of the Chest Wall
Burkitt lymphoma (BL) originating in the skin and soft tissue at any site is exceedingly rare. This paper is about a case of primary sporadic BL that presented as an isolated, rapidly enlarging chest wall mass arising from skin and/or soft tissue in an adult. As with other BL presentations, this pat...
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| description | Burkitt lymphoma (BL) originating in the skin and soft tissue at any site is exceedingly rare. This paper is about a case of primary sporadic BL that presented as an isolated, rapidly enlarging chest wall mass arising from skin and/or soft tissue in an adult. As with other BL presentations, this patient was treated with aggressive chemotherapy with central nervous system (CNS) chemoprophylaxis, but he later died because of sepsis. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3637cf7389e4489b846a61bfe695a1a82025-02-03T01:22:35ZengWileyCase Reports in Hematology2090-65602090-65792012-01-01201210.1155/2012/746098746098Primary Burkitt Lymphoma of the Chest WallRommel Lu0Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB # 7600, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USABurkitt lymphoma (BL) originating in the skin and soft tissue at any site is exceedingly rare. This paper is about a case of primary sporadic BL that presented as an isolated, rapidly enlarging chest wall mass arising from skin and/or soft tissue in an adult. As with other BL presentations, this patient was treated with aggressive chemotherapy with central nervous system (CNS) chemoprophylaxis, but he later died because of sepsis.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/746098 |
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