Primary Lymphomas of the Gastrointestinal Tract

Primary gastrointestinal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: a review of 175 British National Lymphoma Investigation cases

“…As in other reports abdominal pain was the commonest presenting feature (Novak et al, 1979;Contreary et al, 1980;Herrmann et al, 1980;Kaufman et al, 1984;Rao et al, 1984;Bonadonna & Valagussa, 1986;Makepeace et al, 1987;Kajanti et al, 1988;List et al, 1988;Jones et al, 1988). Although comparisons of overall survival between different published series do not take account of differences in risk factors within the series, it is perhaps worth noting that the overall survival of 44% at 5 years in the present series compares favourably with previous reports, in which it ranges from 33% to 55% (Rao et al, 1984;Bonadonna & Valagussa, 1986;Ampil, 1987;Makepeace et al, 1987;Baildam et al, 1989).…”

Early Diagnosis of Intestinal Non‐Hodgkin Lymphoma by Endoscopy

“…The endoscopic findings of intussusception in both children , and subsequently at laparotomy, explain well the crampy abdominal pain , bloody stools, and iron -deficiency anemi a , and sugges t recurrent identical episodes. Overt rectal bleed ing is not a frequent sign (18%) in NHL patients (3,4,6). Ho wever, te sts for occult blood should be done more frequently in children with recurrent abdo minal pain .…”

Prim�re Non-Hodgkin-Lymphome des magens

“…Von 1980Von -1987 Ober Non-Hodgkin-Lymphome mit Erstmanifestation im Magen wird zunehmend berichtet [2,4,29,32,34]. Ihr Anteil an den b6sartigen Geschwfilsten des Magens betrfigt etwa 1-5% [21,26]. Diese Tumorentwicklung im Magen ist abzugrenzen von einer extranodalen Ausbreitung im Gastrointestinaltrakt bei einer generalisierten Erkrankung.…”