Pediatric gastric lymphoma: a rare entity

J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2008 Dec;30(12):984-6. doi: 10.1097/MPH.0b013e31818c915b.

Abstract

Primary gastric lymphoma is a rare event in childhood. We describe a 13-year-old boy with gastric Burkitt-like lymphoma localized in the fundus. Symptoms mimicking gastritis-epigastric pain, hypochromic anemia, anorexia, and weight loss had been present for a few months before diagnosis. No Helicobacter pylori infection was shown at diagnosis. Biopsies obtained by ultrasound gastroscopy proved the diagnosis; F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography detected an isolated large gastric hypermetabolic mass. According to the international FAB/LMB 96 trial, the patient was treated with chemotherapy alone and is in first complete remission 2(1/2) years after diagnosis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Burkitt Lymphoma / drug therapy
  • Burkitt Lymphoma / pathology*
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
  • Helicobacter Infections / diagnosis
  • Helicobacter Infections / drug therapy
  • Helicobacter pylori / isolation & purification
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Positron-Emission Tomography
  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Stomach Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Stomach Neoplasms / pathology*

Substances

  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18