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Burkitt's lymphoma: an unusual cause of childhood paraplegia

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In this paper we present two paraspinal Burkitt's lymphomas, with paraplegia. This entity is very rare in our country. In the evaluation of a paraplegic child, we believe that Burkitt's lymphoma should always be kept in mind.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Hacettepe University Hospitals, Ankara, Turkey

    Mehmet Turgut, O. Ekin Özcan & Aykut Erbengi

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Turgut, M., Özcan, O.E. & Erbengi, A. Burkitt's lymphoma: an unusual cause of childhood paraplegia. Child's Nerv Syst 7, 169–171 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00776717

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