Vasudevan Vijeev, Mohandas Usha, Manjunath V
Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Krishnadevaraya College of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
Indian J Dent Res. 2011 Mar-Apr;22(2):340-4. doi: 10.4103/0970-9290.84315.
Burkitt's lymphoma (BL) is the most common childhood cancer in Africa and is most prevalent in areas endemic for malaria. The disease, a malignant growth of lymphoid tissue, usually presents itself as a large tumor of the jaw. It is however, a rarity in the Indian subcontinent. Through an extensive literary survey, it is seen that only a few cases of BL have been reported, accounting for only 0.76% of solid malignant tumors among Indian children. Here we present a case of BL of mandible extending to maxilla in a 13-year-old boy of Indian origin.
伯基特淋巴瘤（BL）是非洲最常见的儿童癌症，在疟疾流行地区最为普遍。这种疾病是淋巴组织的恶性生长，通常表现为颌部的大肿瘤。然而，在印度次大陆它较为罕见。通过广泛的文献调查发现，仅有少数伯基特淋巴瘤病例被报道，仅占印度儿童实体恶性肿瘤的0.76%。在此，我们报告一例起源于印度的13岁男孩下颌骨伯基特淋巴瘤累及上颌骨的病例。
