Diagnosis and Therapy of Primary Gastrointrestinal Lymphoma / 医学研究杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To study the clinical and pathologic features,and endoscopic diagnosis as well as therapy and prognosis of the primary gastrointrestinal lymphoma(PGIL), and to improve its diagnosis and therapy efficiency. Methods The clinical data in 29 cases of PGIL were retrospectively reviewed. Results In these cases, the tumor was mainly located at stomach (n=21), colon(n=6) and small intestine(n=2). The type of pathology was mucosa associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma(n=8), diffuse large B-cell lymphoma(n=18), T-cell lymphoma(n=3). The commom manifestation include abdominal pain, anaemia, abdominal distention, melena or hemafecia, loss of weigh etc. The tumor appeared infilitrative in 11 cases, ulcerative in 10 cases, protruding in 6 cases, 9 cases were diagnosed by firstly routine biopsy endoscopiccally. 10 cases were treated by operation and chemotherapy, 19 cases were treated by chemotherapy. Up to now, 6 cases survival in operation group, 13 cases survival in chemotherapy group, the difference was not statistically significant . Conclusions PGIL was mainly located at stomach, which was not specific clinical manifestation; The type of pathology was mainly diffuse large B-cell lymphoma; the diagnositic rate of routine endoscopic biopsy was low. chemotherapy was the first treatment of PGIL.