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| Year : 2023 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 59-62 |
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A rare finding of pancreatic involvement in a case of burkitt's lymphoma
Polisetty Sireesha1, V Nithya1, Gavini Surya1, DS Hemalatha1, Tekchand Kalawat1, V Siva Kumar2, R Ramya Priya1
1 Department of Nuclear Medicine, Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India
2 Department of Pathology, Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. R Ramya Priya
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences, Tirupati- 517 507, Andhra Pradesh
India
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DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_108_22
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Burkitt's lymphoma (BL) is a highly aggressive type of B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma. BL commonly occurs in children of age 4–7 years and is uncommon in adults, with a worse prognosis. Patients often present with a rapidly growing mass typically involving the abdomen (liver and spleen) and head and neck (nodes, jaw, and facial bones). Pancreas involvement is very rare and very few case reports have been documented so far. Fluorine-18 positron emission tomography/computed tomography (F-18 PET/CT) is a whole-body survey commonly used for initial staging evaluation. Here, we present an interesting case of BL in an adult female of 43 years, who presented with swelling in the left submandibular region after tooth extraction with multiorgan involvement found on F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose PET/CT.
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