Clinical features and outcome of primary pancreatic lymphoma.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Primary pancreatic lymphoma (PPL) is a rare tumor that is often misdiagnosed. Clinicopathologic features, optimal therapy, and outcomes are not well defined. We reviewed our institutional experience with PPL.

Methods

Search of our institutional database identified that between 1987-2012, 21,760 patients with lymphoma and 11,286 patients with a primary pancreatic tumor were evaluated. There were 44 patients with pathologically confirmed PPL. Clinical data were obtained by chart review and survival distributions were estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method and compared using the log-rank test.

Results

At baseline, LDH was elevated in 55 % of the patients, CA 19-9 in 25 %, and CEA in 20 %. Imaging characteristics included large, unresectable tumors (67 %), a

SUBMITTER: Sadot E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4574284 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature