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Aggressive Burkitt-like lymphoma of colon in a patient with prior celiac disease.
The Yale journal of biology and medicine - 1 Dec 2006
Ahluwalia M, Gotlieb V, Damerla V, Saif M Wasif
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Celiac disease (CD) and immunosuppression are the two risk factors for gastrointestinal, as well as non-gastrointestinal, non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHL). Recent large retrospective studies confirm that celiac disease significantly increases risk of developing small bowel lymphomas by 30 to 40 percent and other gut malignancies by 83-fold. CASE REPORT: A 75-year-old man with a history of CD of two-year...
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