Urology Case Reports (Nov 2020)

Complete response to chemotherapy in Burkitt's Lymphoma of the Bladder: A case report

  • Ryutaro Shimizu,
  • Masashi Honda,
  • Ryoma Nishikawa,
  • Shogo Teraoka,
  • Hideto Iwamoto,
  • Shuichi Morizane,
  • Katsuya Hikita,
  • Atsushi Takenaka

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 33
p. 101298

Abstract

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We report a case of a 87-year-old woman with a Burkitt's Lymphoma of the Bladder. She presented with hematuria. Cystoscopy, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging revealed extramural invasion of a 6-cm-sized tumor that extended from the right wall to the neck of the bladder. The histological pattern was Burkitt's lymphoma. The patient was then treated by chemotherapy. The tumor disappeared after 4 cycles of chemotherapy. The urogenital tract has been described in the literature as a primary tumor location in cases of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, however, it is rarely the tumor site in Burkitt's lymphoma cases.

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