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CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL FEATURES OF PRIMARY GASTROINTESTINAL LYMPHOMAS: A STUDY OF 42 CASES
Author(s) -
SenGupta S. K.,
Sinha S. N.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1991.tb00189.x
Subject(s) - medicine , malabsorption , lymphoma , gastrointestinal tract , gastroenterology , incidence (geometry) , stomach , small intestine , large intestine , pathology , physics , optics
The clinicopathological features of 42 patients with gastrointestinal lymphoma during the period 1982–88 are described. Ten cases (23.8%) were seen in the stomach, 23 cases (54.8%) in the small intestine and 9 cases (21.4%) in the large intestine. In 4 cases multiple sites were involved. The tumours occurred most frequently in the 2nd to 4th decade. Histologically, using the working formulation for non‐Hodgkin's lymphoma, all were found to be diffuse and mostly of the high grade type (45%). Seven lymphomas were seen in children. Three were of the Burkitt's type. Patients presented quite late in a large number of cases (43%). Compared with most other published series small intestinal involvement was common. There was a high incidence in males. Predominant small intestinal involvement did not result in malabsorption syndrome and primary lymphomas constituted 3.5% of all malignancies of the gastrointestinal tract.