CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, Vol 22, 349-355, Copyright
© 1972 by American Cancer Society
A Sarcoma Involving the Jaws in African Children
Denis Burkitt 1
1 The Department of Surgery, Makerere College Medical School, and Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda, East Africa.
Thirty-eight cases of a sarcoma involving the jaws of African children are described. This is a syndrome which has not previously been fully recognized. It is by far the commonest malignant tumour of childhood seen at Mulago Hospital.