Incidence of burkitt lymphoma in the north of Iraq

Abstract EN

To describe the incidence of Burkitt lymphoma (BL) in the North Iraq with special regard to the incidence of BL of the jaw bone.

Materials and Methods : The records of patients with lym-phoma between the years 1981-1990 and 1995 -1999 in Hazim Al-Hafid Hospital in Mosul City were reviewed and they are analyzed with special regard to the BL including age,sex and the site distribu-tion of the lesions.

Results: One thousand and two records of the patients with lymphoma were re-viewed .Seventy cases of them were BL consisting 7% of all lymphomas.

Four cases (5.7%) of the BL were present as jaw bone lesion.

The age range for patients with BL of the jaw bone was 4 – 12 years with mean of age 7.5 years .

All patients of BL of the jaw bones were male .No lesion of the jaw bone showed metastasis to the brain where prognosis become worse.

Conclusions: BL in our country can be occurred in the intestine and even in the jaw bone so it must be included in our differential diagnosis of the jaw bone lesions.