Primary gastrointestinal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma [PGI NHL]: management and outcome

Sixty-four patients with PGI NHL were included in this study. The study outlined the clinicopathological features, modalities of diagnosis and treatment, outcome and variables affecting the overall survival. The stomach was involved in 36 cases and intestinal lymphoma was implicated in 28 cases. Stage IIE was the commonest stage. The predominant histological type was high-grade. The overall survival in all cases was 63% at 30 months according to the Kaplan Meier method. The stage of the disease, extension of resection, site of the lesion whether gastric or intestinal and achievement of complete remission [CR] were found to affect the overall survival