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Burkitt’s Tumor (BT) is identified as a malignant lymphoma composed predominantly of lymphoid cells similar to those found in the germinal centers of lymphoreticular tissues under normal conditions of antigenic stimulation [1, 2, 3]. The normal cell that morphologically most closely resembles the Burkitt tumor cell is the germinoblast of Lennert [3, 4], and there may be only slight quantitative differences to a cell called immunoblast by Damashek [5] (Figs. 1-3).
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Krüger, G., O’Conor, G.T. (1972). Epidemiologic and Immunologic Considerations on the Pathogenesis of Burkitt’s Tumor. In: Grundmann, E., Tulinius, H. (eds) Current Problems in the Epidemiology of Cancer and Lymphomas. Recent Results in Cancer Research / Fortschritte der Krebsforschung / Progrès dans les recherches sur le cancer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-41032-5_22
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