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Guibenson Hyppolite, HMS III<br />

Gillian Lieberman, MD<br />

Patient 5: Endemic Burkitt’s<br />

Burkitt’s <strong>Lymphoma</strong><br />

•Endemic (African) and non-endemic (American) forms<br />

•Most often in children and immunocompromised hosts<br />

•Tumors originate from EBV-infected B cells<br />

•t(8,14) translocation and activation of c-myc<br />

Patient 6: <strong>Non</strong>-endemic Burkitt’s<br />

http://individual.uptodateonline.com/application/topic/print.asp?file=lymphoma/14479&type=A&selectedTitle=1~17<br />

September 2004<br />

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