[Gastric MALT lymphoma, clinical features]

Gastric mucosa associated lymphoma (MALT) can be regarded as a pathogenetic continuum of reactive B lymphocyte accumulation due to Helicobacter pylori infection, which after a series of mutation may presumably transform into a low grade and later on into a high grade MALT lymphoma. If the lymphoma is confined to the mucosa or strictly to the superficial part of gastric wall, a conventional, regular Helicobacter pylori eradication procedure has a good chance to bring about clinical, histological and less frequently molecular biological remission as well.