{"title":"Burkitt's lymphoma in Israel.","authors":"A Buchner, D Temkin, R David","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A case is described of Burkitt's lymphoma in a nine-year-old Arab boy. The presenting symptom was swelling of the right maxilla, originally diagnosed as a dento-alveolar abscess. The clinical features of African and American Burkitt's lymphoma are compared, and the occurrence of the tumor mainly in the Arab population of Israel is noted.</p>","PeriodicalId":76412,"journal":{"name":"Refu'at ha-peh veha-shinayim (Tel Aviv, Israel : 1969)","volume":"27 3","pages":"5-7, 5-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1978-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Refu'at ha-peh veha-shinayim (Tel Aviv, Israel : 1969)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A case is described of Burkitt's lymphoma in a nine-year-old Arab boy. The presenting symptom was swelling of the right maxilla, originally diagnosed as a dento-alveolar abscess. The clinical features of African and American Burkitt's lymphoma are compared, and the occurrence of the tumor mainly in the Arab population of Israel is noted.