Nasopharyngeal Burkitt lymphoma as an early AIDS manifestation.

urkitt lymphoma (BL) is a highly aggressive type B nonodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) found in endemic, sporadic, and mmunodeficiency-related presentations. All of them show he same morphological, immunohistochemical, and genetic haracteristics, with different geographical and age disributions and affected organs.1,2 The great majority of poradic and immunodeficiency-related cases are found in he abdomen (60--80%), followed by head and neck, where aldeyer’s ring extranodal involvement is usual (palatine onsil and nasopharynx).1--3 This study aimed to report a case in which the patient resented BL as an early manifestation of acquired immuodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).