Background: Burkitt lymphoma is a common subtype of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in children. It has a rapid and aggressive clinical course with frequent involvement of bone marrow and central nervous system. Systemic chemotherapy is the mainstay of the treatment for this malignancy in children. In this systematic review, we discuss autologous and allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSC...

A total of 935 patients with extranodal non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) diagnosed in the period between January 1985 and December 2000 in Kuwait Cancer Center, serving the whole population of Kuwait, were used to describe the clinicopathological and epidemiological features of extranodal lymphomas in Kuwait. Extranodal lymphomas accounted for 45% of all NHL observed during this time. All NHL cases f...

Abstract B-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma (B-LBL) is an uncommon subtype of pediatric non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL) which rarely involves the skin primarily. The positron emission tomography with 2-deoxy-2-[fluorine- 18] fluoro-D: -glucose integrated with computed tomography (18F-FDG PET/CT) scan findings of a 8-year-old boy with cutaneous B-LBL were presented. PET/CT scan demonstrated mild FDG up...

To date, only 1 report describes an anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) associated with hemophagocytosis in the pediatric population. To better characterize this unusual manifestation of ALCL, we identified 2 additional cases. Both patients had fever, cytopenia, decreased fibrinogen level, mediastinal or hilar adenopathy, minimal to no peripheral adenopathy, and lung infiltrates. Bone marrow ...

This article presents a clinical case of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in teenager, who had laboratory and signs acute kidney injury the onset disease. The presented is characterized by late manifestation disease absence classical tumor markers. diagnosis was verified only following repeat spine MRI. may be relevant for pediatricians, pediatric oncologists hematologists, nephrologists.