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Burkitt's lymphoma in Iraq. Clinical and pathological study of forty‐seven patients
Author(s) -
AlAttar Adil,
AlMondhiry Hamid,
AlBahrani Zuhair,
AlSaleem Tahseen
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
international journal of cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.475
H-Index - 234
eISSN - 1097-0215
pISSN - 0020-7136
DOI - 10.1002/ijc.2910230104
Subject(s) - medicine , pathological , lymphoma , cyclophosphamide , stage (stratigraphy) , disease , abdomen , bone marrow , chemotherapy , surgery , paleontology , biology
Abstract The clinical and pathological features of 47 patients with Burkitt's lymphoma seen at the University of Baghdad Teaching Hospital over the years 1969–1977 are described. There were 30 males and 17 females with a mean age of 7.5 years. All patients presented with advanced disease; 44 were in Stage III and 3 in Stage IV, (1 with central nervous system involvement; 1 with bone‐marrow involvement; 1 presented as acute leukaemia). The abdomen, with or without other sites, was involved in 42 patients. Thirty‐four patients died within 18 months, 11 in the immediate post‐operative period. Cyclophosphamide in variable dosages was administered to 29 patients with a good response in 15. The 3 patients with Stage IV disease died with poor response to therapy. Thus, in Iraq, a non‐endemic area for the disease, Burkitt's lymphoma seems to have somewhat different clinical and pathological features from the endemic (African), or the rare, sporadic disease reported eisewhere.