Burkitt's lymphomain Burkina Faso hospital center : therapeutic and course.

Summary A retrospective study of 41 cases of children sent to hospital and treated for the Burkitt's lymphoma for a period of 10 years has been carried out in the hospital of Bobo-Dioulasso in order to study the progressing and therapeutic features of the disease. The therapeutic means were the ablation surgery of voluminous tumors (19.5%) and the monochimiotherapy with cyclophosphamid (83%) according to Burkitt's procedure (64.7%) and N'gu procedure (35.3%). The mortality under chimiotherapy was 8.8%. The immediate evolution has shown 58.8% of complete remission, 26.5% of partial remission, 11.8% of resistance to the treatment.