Is Burkitt type lymphoma a neoplasm of follicular centre cell origin?

Das, D.K.; Gupta, S.K.; Datta, B.N.

Indian Journal of Medical Research 83: 231-233

1986


ISSN/ISBN: 0019-5340
PMID: 3710553
Document Number: 277408
In a study of 280 patients with cytologically diagnosed non-Hodgkin lymphomas, 40 were found to be Burkitt type lymphomas. Based on cytologic and histologic studies, we believe that Burkitt type lymphoma deserves a place in the spectrum of follicular centre cell (FCC) lymphomas. However, unlike other FCC lymphomas the patients of Burkitt's lymphoma were young (median age = 22 yr) and had a high frequency of extranodal tumors (81.8%).

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