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ArticleCureus2025

Burkitt Lymphoma: An Atypical Presentation and Dismal Outcome.

Inês M Araújo, Marta Viana-Pereira, Inês Silveira, Soraia G Araújo, Ana Oliveira

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Article in Cureus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Inês M AraújoInternal Medicine, Unidade Local de Saúde de Braga, Braga, PRT.
Marta Viana-PereiraMedical Oncology, Unidade Local de Saúde de Braga, Braga, PRT.
Inês SilveiraIntensive Care Unit, Unidade Local de Saúde de Braga, Braga, PRT.
Soraia G AraújoIntensive Care Unit, Unidade Local de Saúde de Braga, Braga, PRT.
Ana OliveiraInternal Medicine, Unidade Local de Saúde de Braga, Braga, PRT.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Burkitt lymphoma (BL) is a highly aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma that manifests more frequently in children than adults. Disease presentation in adults includes abdominal masses, B symptoms, tumor lysis, and central nervous system involvement, mainly in the leptomeninges. The central nervous system involvement is a common complication of this type of lymphoma, but it is unusual at presentation. The authors present the diagnostic challenges and therapeutic approach of a complex case of a 55-year-old man presenting with symptoms of spinal cord compression at diagnosis, an atypical presentation of Burkitt lymphoma.

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burkitt lymphomadiagnostic challengeebv infectionleptomeningeal invasionnon-hodgkin lymphoma

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PMID40951016
PMCPMC12433268

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