Primary Burkitt Lymphoma of the Fourth Ventricle in an Immunocompetent Young Patient

Table 1

Reported cases of primary Burkitt lymphoma in central nervous system.

Case; number	Author	Year	Age	Gender	Location	Previous status/immunity
1	Valsamis et al. [1]	1976	3 m	Male	Both temporal tips and partial temporal area	Positive serology for EBV
2	Gigormini et al. [2]	1981	11 y	Male	Temporooccipital area	Excised astrocytoma, 6 months before presentation with Burkitt lymphoma
3	Kobayashi et al. [3]	1984	55 y	Female	Right temporoparietal area	Not available
4	Hegedus [4]	1984	50 y	Female	Brainstem and cerebellum	Nothing significant/competent
5	Tekkok et al. [5]	1991	5 y	Male	Frontobasal parasellar area	Nothing significant/competent
6	Toren et al. [6]	1994	6 y	Female	? Midbrain	Nothing significant/competent
7	Späth-Schwalbe et al. [7]	1999	40 y	Male	Cerebellum and pons	Nothing significant/competent
8	Monabati et al. [8]	2002	49 y	Female	Right parietal lobe	Iron deficiency anemia/competent
9	Shehu [9]	2003	8 y	Male	Left temporal area and right lateral orbit	Not available
10	Gobbato et al. [10]	2006	38 y	Male	Right frontotemporoparietal subdural area	AIDS
11	Abel et al. [11]	2006	50 y	Male	Central thalamus and right thalamus	Not available
12	Kozáková et al. [12]	2008	60 y	Female	Sellar (pituitary)	Nothing significant/competent
13	Takasu et al. [13]	2010	71 y	Male	Hypothalamic third ventricle	Known case of inactive TB/competent
14	Gu et al. [14]	2010	75 y	Female	Third and left lateral ventricles	Resolved cerebral infarction/competent
15	Lim et al. [15]	2011	43 y	Female	Medulla oblongata	Not available
16	Jiang et al. [16]	2011	14 y	Male	Right lateral ventricle	Nothing significant/competent
17	Akhaddar et al. [17]	2012	13 y	Female	Right infratemporal area	Nothing significant/competent
18	Yoon et al. [18]	2012	10 y	Male	Suprasellar, cerebellum, 3rd ventricle	Not available
19	Yoon et al. [18]	2012	32 m	Male	Sellar area, extend to orbit/sphenoid	Not available
20	Jiang et al. [19]	2012	69 y	Male	Right temporal and occipital lobes, cervical spine, and cauda equina	Nothing significant/competent