This article is part of the supplement: 35te Tagung der Pathologen am Oberrhein/35th Meeting of Pathologists of the Upper Rhine Region (PATOR) .

Oral presentation

Diagnosis of Burkitt's lymphoma in due time: a practical approach

SB Cogliatti¹, U Novak², S Henz³, U Schmid¹, P Möller⁴ and TFE Barth⁴

¹  Department of Pathology, Kantonsspital, St. Gallen, Switzerland

²  Institute for Cancer Genetics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

³  Department of Internal Medicine, Kantonsspital, St. Gallen, Switzerland

⁴  Department of Pathology, University Hospital, Ulm, Germany

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from 35te Tagung der Pathologen am Oberrhein/35th Meeting of Pathologists of the Upper Rhine Region (PATOR)
The Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Freiburg, Germany. 1 July 2006

Diagnostic Pathology 2007, 2(Suppl 1):S6doi:10.1186/1746-1596-2-S1-S6

Published:	14 March 2007

First paragraph (this article has no abstract)

The quick diagnosis of Burkitt's lymphoma (BL) and its clear-cut differentiation from diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is of great clinical importance since treatment for these two disease entities differ markedly and should promptly be initiated in BL. However, these two tumours are difficult to distinguish using the current WHO classification, particularly in regard to BL variants, i.e., BL with plasmacytoid differentiation and atypical Burkitt's/Burkitt's-like lymphomas.