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Acute renal failure due to obstruction in Burkitt lymphoma
E Mantadakis1, V M Aquino, W R Strand
1Department of Pediatrics, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Texas 75235-9063, USA.
Pediatric Nephrology (Berlin, Germany)
|June 3, 1999
Abstract:
Acute renal failure in Burkitt lymphoma is commonly the result of tumor lysis syndrome. We present a 15-year-old boy who developed hypertension, seizures, and acute renal failure due to extrinsic compression of the bladder and ureters by a large retrovesical Burkitt lymphoma. The causes of acute renal failure in Burkitt lymphoma and the incidence of acute urinary obstruction in this disease are reviewed.