A 42-year-old female patient was admitted due to epigastric pain and weight loss. Her past medical history was otherwise negative apart from cigarette smoking. Her physical examination was unremarkable. C-reactive protein and erythrocyte sedimentation rate were raised up to 14.8 mg/ dL and 51 mm/h respectively, platelets were 453,000, while the remaining laboratory tests were normal. Upper gast...

the diagnosis of gastric primary extramedullary plasmacytoma: a first case report Magnifying narrow-band imaging (NBI) endoscopy has been increasingly used in the diagnosis of early gastric cancer and is regarded as an effective diagnostic approach. This technique has been used to classify gastric cancer according to the tumor surface structure and microvessels [1,2]. We obtained a magnified NB...

An 82-year-old Japanese man presented with a gastric involvement of peripheral T-cell lymphoma, not otherwise specified. Although gastrointestinal lesions were not detected on computed tomography, oesophagogastroduodenoscopy revealed a slight elevation of the gastric mucosa, with changes in mucosal colour and the presence of abnormal microvessels. This led to the prompt detection of gastric inv...

Primary pancreatic lymphoma is a rare extranodal manifestation of any histopathologic subtype of B cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that predominantly involves the pancreas. It comprises less than 0.2% of pancreatic malignancies and less than 0.7% of non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. This lymphoma is almost never suspected clinically. It is usually diagnosed by surgical exploration for suspected adenoca...

PATIENT Female, 91 FINAL DIAGNOSIS: Low-grade gastric MALT lymphoma Symptoms: Recurrent epigastric and right upper quadrant dyscomfort Medication: Rituximab Clinical Procedure: esophagogastroduodenoscopy • gastric biopsy Specialty: Gastroenterology. OBJECTIVE Unusual or unexpected effect of treatment. BACKGROUND Mucosa associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma can occur in any extranodal o...

AIMS To evaluate the chromosomal translocation t(11;18)(q21;q21) in gastrointestinal lymphomas. METHODS A possible API2-MLT fusion transcript specific to t(11;18)(q21;q21) was examined by means of reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in tumours from 47 cases of primary gastrointestinal lymphoma (28 low grade mucosa associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphomas, four low grad...