Perforated voluminous duodenal Burkitt lymphoma causing severe peritonitis, a case report

Abstract

The management of duodenal malignant lymphoma presents challenges due to the presence of serious complications like obstruction, pancreatitis, and perforation. As a result, a combination of surgical measures and interdisciplinary procedures is necessary. We report a case of a 44 years old man suffering from abdominal pain and vomiting, CT images showed a voluminous intraperitoneal perforated tumour, intra operative exlopration showed that the origin of the tumour is duodenum , a resection was performed , patient died few hours after surgery, , histological and immunohistochemical findings confirmed the diagnostic of burkitt lymphoma . the primary treatment for gastrointestinal lymphomas remains chemotherapy, but in cases of duodenal lymphoma, a significant number of patients need surgery due to complicated presentations.