HIV associated Burkitt's lymphoma.

Burkitt's lymphoma (BL) is a highly aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL) associated with chromosomal translocations resulting in upregulation of the proto-oncogene C-MYC, which drives progression through the cell cycle NHL accounts for approximately one third of AIDS-related malignancies and the frequency of BL is 2.4-20% of HIV-associated NHL. The outcome of HIV-associated non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) has improved substantially in the highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) era. However, HIV-Burkitt lymphoma (BL), which accounts for up to 20% of HIV-NHL, still has poor outcome with standard chemotherapy. We present here a 26 years old female who presented with congestive cardiac failure and sudden onset paraparesis and was finally diagnosed to have right atrial mass and had extradural lesion extending from L2 to S1 which turned out to be High grade NHL-Burkitt's Lymphoma.