[Prognostic, clinical and anatomo-pathological aspects of gastric lymphoma]

The authors refer about the results of a study made on 15 cases of gastric lymphoma with a mean follow-up of 6 years. Among the examined features they underlie the clinical appearance of each case according to histologic cell-type, stage of disease and performed treatment with relation to the survival rate. According to the Rappaport classification, diffuse histiocytic lymphoma was the most frequent histologic type of disease: the prognosis turned out to be significantly favorable in case of stage I, while no correlation was observed between different surgical procedures and cell-type. The overall 5 years survival rate was 33.3% with a strong suggestion of better survival in case of early diagnosis.