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Histology

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The histology of the African and non-African Burkitt's lymphoma is identical.

The typical appearance is of a "starry sky":

  • the sky is a mass of rapidly dividing, monotonous small cells with a high nuclear to cytoplasmic ratio
  • the stars are macrophages which are removing apoptotic lymphoma cells

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