Burkitt's lymphoma mimicking EBV disease as first sign of vertical HIV infection in an adolescent

Burkitt's Lymphoma (BL) rarely represents the first clinical manifestation of vertical HIV infection in adolescent in Western Europe. We report the case of a 17 year-old boy with two week history of fever and enlarged cervical lymph nodes firstly misdiagnosed as EBV infection, subsequently diag...

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Main Authors: Santilli, Veronica, Mora, Nadia, Aquilani, Angela, Tchidjou, Hyppolite K, Pontrelli, Giuseppe, De Vito, Rita, Lombardi, Alessandra, Bernardi, Stefania, Palma, Paolo
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2010
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Case report
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2873400/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20416074
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1824-7288-36-34
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