Adult abdominal Burkitt lymphoma with isolated peritoneal involvement
Catarina Oliveira1, Hugo Matos1, Paula Serra2
1Medical Imaging Department and Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital of Coimbra, Portugal.
Journal of Radiology Case Reports
|June 27, 2014
Abstract:
Burkitt lymphoma is a fast-growing high grade B-cell neoplasm that rarely affects adults. Three clinical variants are described in the World Health Organization classification: endemic, sporadic, and immunodeficiency-associated. The non-endemic form typically presents as an abdominal mass in children. Symptoms usually occur due to mass effect or direct intestinal involvement. We describe a very unusual presentation of a sporadic Burkitt lymphoma case in a 61-year-old male with diffuse peritoneal and omental involvement, without lymphadenopathies, mimicking peritoneal carcinomatosis.


