Dirk Schaper, P. Göbel (Klinik für Kinderchirurgie Krankenhaus St. Elisabeth und St. Barbara Halle-S.)  

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7 Years  

Male  

GI-Small intestine  

neoplastic  

One week ago, stomach ache for the first time, partly crampy in nature, 3 times a day. There is an obvious connection to food ingestion. In the sense of primary symptoms, bloodwork was done on the 2nd of November; there, anemia noted. On the 5th of November, initial worsening of the patient's condition with lack of appetite, malaise, increased stomach aches and a repeating vomiting with acute onset.  

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Ultrasound 1: RUQ transverse: 42x30 mm in size, irregularly marked, non-echo-free mass with incomplete, gechogenic edge. Changes position on breathing in the area of the right colonic flexure.





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Ultrasound 2: RUQ longitudinal: Same mass in power-mode. Homogenic vasculature, therefore not a cystic process.





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Ultrasound 3: RUQ diagonal: Questionable localization of the mass (in the gut?) which has a stalk-like structure. At the lower edge one got the impression that there was a intussception "bulls-eye," which was not able to be completely visualized.





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Ultrasound 4: RUQ diagonal: Visualization of the vessel's stalk and the branching within the mass.





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Ultrasound 5: RUQ transverse, paramedian: Obvious lymph node swelling medial to the mass.





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OP-Situs 1: Palpable tumor in the cecum.




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OP-Situs 2: Ileocecal transition. Lymph node in the foreground, tweezers in the partly intusscepted ileum in the cecum.




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OP-Situs 3: Intraoperative: Determination of the resection's edges.




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OP-Situs 4: Specimen luxated out of the cecum.

 

Surgery / Histo  

Gastrointestinal inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor, intussusception, duplication, lymphoma.  

After extensive diagnostics (including CT, MRI), the ileocecal resection with end-to-end anastomosis is performed. After receiving histology, the child was transferred to the department of pediatric hematology and oncology.  

The sonographic categorization of the process in the lumen of the gut was difficult. Because of the connection to the gut and its partial intussusception, the categorization of which organ this belonged could be assumed. Intraoperatively, the sonographic findings of a partial intussusception were confirmed. A remarkable mobile cecum explains the localization of the tumor in a supine patient in the RUQ.  

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1. Medline:
Mendelson, R.M., S.Fermoyle: Primary gastrointestinal Lymphomas: A radiological-pathological review. Part1: Stomach, oesophagus and colon
Australasian Radiology (2005) 49, 353-364

2. Medline:
Zuti,S.,G.A.Rouse,M.de Lange:
Burkitt´s Lymphoma: A spectrum of sonographic findings
J Diag Med Sonograph (1993) 9(1) 19-23  

Burkitt Lymphoma, Gut, tumor, partial intussusception, child, childhood, pediatric radiology  

Dirk Schaper, P Göbel. B-cell NHL of the Ileum (Type: Sporadic Burkitt Lymphoma). PedRad [serial online] vol 5, no. 12.
URL: www.PedRad.info/?search=20051215115942