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Year : 2019 | Volume
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Burkitt's lymphoma of intestine presenting as ileocolic intussusception: An atypical presentation
Mahmood Dhahir Al-Mendalawi
Department of Paediatrics, Al-Kindy College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq
Date of Web Publication | 14-May-2019 |
Correspondence Address: Prof. Mahmood Dhahir Al-Mendalawi Department of Paediatrics, Al-Kindy College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, P. O. Box: 55302, Baghdad Post Office, Baghdad Iraq
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/ijhas.IJHAS_70_18
How to cite this article: Al-Mendalawi MD. Burkitt's lymphoma of intestine presenting as ileocolic intussusception: An atypical presentation. Int J Health Allied Sci 2019;8:149 |
How to cite this URL: Al-Mendalawi MD. Burkitt's lymphoma of intestine presenting as ileocolic intussusception: An atypical presentation. Int J Health Allied Sci [serial online] 2019 [cited 2024 Mar 28];8:149. Available from: https://www.ijhas.in/text.asp?2019/8/2/149/258185 |
Sir,
I read the interesting case report by Sharma et al. on Burkitt's lymphoma (BL) of intestine presenting as ileocolic intussusception in a 4-year-old Indian boy.[1] I assume that the highly malignant and aggressive nature of that neoplasm as well as its atypical presentation in the studied patient should alert the authors to consider defective immune status. Among conditions associated with defective immunity, infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has a great priority. This is based on the following point. It is explicit that children with perinatal exposure to HIV are at increased risk to various neoplasms compared to nonexposed counterparts.[2] To my knowledge, HIV infection is a serious health hazard in India. Although no recent data are yet present on the pediatric HIV seroprevalence, the available data pointed out to the substantial HIV seroprevalence rate of 1.03% among pregnant in India.[3] Regrettably, the HIV states of the studied boy and his mother were not tested. I assume that some sort of vertical HIV transmission ought to be considered in the studied boy. Therefore, achieving the diagnostic battery of CD4 lymphocyte count and viral overload measurements was solicited in the studied patient. If that battery was to reveal HIV reactivity, the case in question could surely widen the spectrum of atypical presentation of HIV-associated BL already reported in the world literature.[4],[5]
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