Case Report
Victor Hugo Ramirez Lopez and Hector Mauricio Serrano Reyes
Correspondence Address :
Victor Hugo Ramirez Lopez
Carlos Chagas State Hospital
General
Surgery Service
Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Brazil
Received on: November 20, 2020, Accepted on: May 12, 2023, Published on: May 15, 2023
Citation: Victor Hugo Ramirez Lopez, Hector Mauricio Serrano Reyes (2023). Terminal Ileum Perforation By Burkitt Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma In A Pediatric Patient: A Case Report
Copyright: 2023 Victor Hugo Tamirez Lopez, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Lymphoma is the third most frequently diagnosed neoplasm in children and can be primary extra nodal, if there is no or minimal nodal lymph node involvement; or secondary involvement, when the disease is already advanced, this being significantly more common. The peak age for Burkitt lymphoma in children is 5-15 years, with more cases in boys than in girls. The clinical manifestation is related to the location of the primary tumour. The most common presentation of primary abdominal Burkitt lymphoma is reported to be abdominal pain and can present itself urgently with an acute exacerbation caused by intussusception, appendicitis or perforation like our case report of a an 9-year-old male child who sought the Emergency Care Unit (UPA), with a report of an intestinal obstruction evolving to perforation and peritonitis, Emergency surgical procedure was developed, which served both as a therapy and to investigate the disease, as it allowed the diagnosis of Non-Hodginlymphoma. Primary gastrointestinal tumours in children are rare. Non- Hodgin lymphoma remains the most common malignancy of the gastrointestinal tract in children but with the proper diagnosis and treatment the patients would have a high rate of good clinical response.
Keywords: Perforated Ileum, Lymphoma, Burkitt lymphoma, Non-Hodgin lymphoma, Intestinal obstruction
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