Gastric low-grade mucosal-associated lymphoid tissue-lymphoma: Helicobacter pylori and beyond.

ABSTRACT: The stomach is the most frequently involved site for extranodal lymphomas, accounting for nearly two-thirds of all gastrointestinal cases. It is widely accepted that gastric B-cell, low-grade mucosal-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT)-lymphoma is caused by Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection. MALT-lymphomas may engender different clinical and endoscopic patterns. Often, diagnosis is confirmed in patients with only vague dyspeptic symptoms and without macroscopic lesions on gastric mucosa. H. pylori eradication leads to lymphoma remission in a large number of patients when treatment occurs at an early stage (I-II(1)). Neoplasia confined to the submucosa, localized in the antral region of the stomach, and without API2-MALT1 translocation, shows a high probability of remission following

SUBMITTER: Zullo A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2998825 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature