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Based on own experience and on the published literature we report about indications and efficiency of endosonography (EUS) in gastric tumors. The following conclusions can be drawn at the present time. Submucous tumors can be clearly differentiated from extragastric compressions. Although the endosonographic aspect does not allow to formulate an etiologic diagnosis, EUS findings can give hints regarding the nature of the submucous tumor (e.g. leiomyoma, lipoma, cyst). In 75% of cases malignant submucous tumors can be visualized and a correct preoperative staging can be performed. EUS is of special importance in the description of gastric carcinoma. The pT stage can be correctly determined preoperatively in about 80% (69-92%) of cases. Accompanying inflammation in early gastric cancer can lead to overstaging. The sensitivity for local lymph node metastases reaches about 77% (50-88%). Gastric non-Hodgkin lymphomas can be excellently visualized with EUS. The sensitivity amounts to 90-100% and in about 90% of cases the extent of the tumor can be correctly determined preoperatively. The response to radio-chemotherapy of gastric non-Hodgkin lymphomas can be monitored easily with the method. At the present time EUS is the most sensitive imaging tool in visualizing and staging of gastric tumors. Its main advantage is the exact demonstration of intramural and paragastric alterations. However, despite the use of high ultrasonic frequencies and the excellent demonstration of even tiny details with EUS, biopsies for histologic evaluation are still mandatory, especially when dealing with gastric ulcer.
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PMID:[Endosonography of stomach tumors]. 147 65

Gastric pseudolymphoma is a benign inflammatory condition that is usually associated with chronic gastric ulcer and often mimics gastric carcinoma or malignant lymphoma. Our experience with 12 histologically documented gastric pseudolymphomas at the Medical College of Virginia is presented with an emphasis on the approach to both diagnosis and surgical management. Preoperative diagnoses in this series ranged from benign gastric ulcer to gastric cancer. Treatment was by gastric resection in all cases and it included, as a minimum, antrectomy and excision of the lesion with an adequate gross margin. Of 11 cases with adequate follow-up, there are eight asymptomatic patients without recurrence and one patient who died of other causes without recurrence 5 years after gastrectomy. One patient developed recurrent pseudolymphoma in the proximal gastric remnant 39 months after a distal subtotal gastrectomy for pseudolymphoma. Another patient subsequently developed Hodgkin's disease of the gastric remnant, with regional lymph node and liver involvement, and died 35 months after the earlier subtotal gastrectomy for pseudolymphoma. Our clinical experience with this confusing and uncommon entity is compared with that previously reported in the medical literature.
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PMID:Gastric pseudolymphoma. A challenging clinical problem. 646 73

Gastric accumulation of Ga-67 greater than that seen in the liver was observed in 16 of 162 (9.8%) patients with lymphoma. Endoscopic biopsies in six patients showed one instance each of histiocytic lymphoma, mixed cellularity Hodgkin's disease, adenocarcinoma, and hiatal hernia with mucosal deformity, as well as two instances of benign gastric ulcer. All six patients had chronic gastric symptoms, as well as persistent radiogallium accumulation on sequential examinations of 2 years duration. The remaining 10 patients exhibited transient radiotracer gastric uptake and only two has gastric symptoms. Persistent gastric Ga-67 accumulation is not common in lymphoma and warrants endoscopy when accompanied by prolonged symptoms.
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PMID:Gastric Ga-67 uptake in patients with lymphoma. 775 Feb 16

There were 2385 (1236 female, 1149 male) cases of malignant lymphoma diagnosed in Kaunas region. Forty-five cases of histologically confirmed malignant gastric lymphoma diagnosed throughout 1981-2000 period are discussed. The disease was diagnosed to 37 patients only after surgery and to other eight by means of endoscopical investigation. Before establishing the correct diagnosis, gastric carcinoma was supposed to 27 patients, gastric ulcer to 12 patients, gastropathia erosiva to 6 patients. Histologically primary non-Hodgkin gastric lymphoma was diagnosed to 29 patients. That consisted 78.3 per cent of all surgically treated patients, 64.4 per cent of histologically confirmed cases and 1.2 per cent of all diagnosed malignant lymphomas. Gastric lymphogranulomatosis was diagnosed to 16 patients. Primary lymphogranulomatosis three cases. After supposed stomach cancer, three patients were operated. All patients were examined by X-ray, CT and endoscopy. Biopsy was taken from pathological or not pathological mucous membrane.
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PMID:[Diagnosis of malignant lymphoma of the stomach]. 1247 35

Classic Hodgkin's lymphoma (cHL) most often involves lymph nodes, and gastric involvement is rare. Hodgkin's and Reed-Sternberg (H-RS) cells in cHL are known to often lack expression of several B-lineage markers, such as CD20, CD79a, Oct-2, and Bob-1. We present an extremely rare case of mixed-cellularity cHL in the stomach in which expression of these B-cells was detected immunohistochemically. The patient was an 83-year-old Japanese woman who developed a sensation of abdominal fullness and appetite loss. Endoscopic and abdominal computed tomography examinations revealed a gastric ulcer lesion and swelling of para-aortic lymph nodes, respectively. A subtotal gastrectomy was performed, and the histopathologic diagnosis was established as a typical cHL compatible with stomach origin. The patient underwent postoperative chemotherapy of 3 cycles of ABVD (doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine) and has since been in complete remission. Immunohistochemically, the H-RS cells in the cHL were positive not only for CD30 but also for CD20, CD79a, Oct-2, and Bob-1, whereas they were negative for CD3, CD15, CD45, EMA, and ALK1. Our patient may have had an intermediate cHL disease overlapping that of non-Hodgkin's peripheral B-cell lymphoma, possibly reflecting derivation from germinal-center B-cells.
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PMID:Primary gastric Hodgkin's lymphoma expressing a B-Cell profile including Oct-2 and Bob-1 proteins. 1756 19

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is an important cause of opportunistic infection in immunocompromised patients. CMV infection occurs as a result of the cell-mediated immunity change in lymphoma patients. Although CMV can cause ulceration anywhere in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract in immunocompromised patients, only a few case reports about CMV GI infection in malignant lymphoma have been documented in literature. Furthermore, it was rare that CMV gastric ulcer with massive bleeding presented as an initial manifestation in a patient who has been not diagnosed lymphoma. We report a case of CMV induced gastric ulcer as an initial manifestation in patient with Hodgkins disease.
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PMID:[Cytomegalovirus induced gastric ulcer as a principal manifestation in the initial stage of hodgkins disease]. 1969 39

We report a rare case of sarcoidosis-lymphoma syndrome with vertebral bone destruction. A 63-year-old woman was previously diagnosed as sarcoidosis by supraclavicular lymph node biopsy, and came to our hospital complaining of back pain. Both serum angiotensin-converting enzyme and lysozyme level had been continuously elevated. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed lumbar vertebral bone destruction. Histopathologic examination of lumbar vertebral tumor obtained by CT-guided biopsy revealed non-caseating epithelioid granuloma with CD 68 (+), AE1/AE3 (-), and no malignant cells. She was admitted to our hospital again for dyspnea and pancytopenia. We diagnosed active sarcoidosis and administered oral 30mg prednisolone daily. One month later, prednisolone became ineffective. Flow cytometry of tumor cells obtained from the gastric ulcer floor showed CD 5 (+), CD 20 (+), K chain monoclonality and we diagnosed B-cell non Hodgkin's lymphoma. She was treated by eight cycles of CHOP plus rituximab chemotherapy and achieved complete response. FDG uptake of the entire body decreased, whereas MRI revealed residual mass in the vertebrae. Sarcoidosis had been diagnosed for two and half years before lymphoma developed. Bone destruction is very rare and sarcoidosis is rarely the cause. This is quite an unusual case presenting histologically proved epithelioid granuloma and vertebral destruction in sarcoidosis-lymphoma syndrome.
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PMID:[Sarcoidosis-lymphoma syndrome with vertebral bone destruction]. 1999 5

The author reviewed pathologic features of 37 cases of malignant lymphoma in the gastrointestinal organs in the last 10 years in our pathology laboratory. The current WHO classification was adopted. The 37 cases consisted of 20 males and 17 female, and the age ranged from 46 to 89 years with a median of 69 years. Of the 37 cases, 25 cases (68%) were gastric lymphomas, 6 cases (16%) were small intestinal lymphomas, and 6 cases (16%) were colon lymphomas. Of the 37 cases, 35 cases (95%) were B-cell neoplasms and 2 cases (5%) were T-cell neoplasms. In the 25 gastric lymphomas (male:female=14:11, age range 46-84 years, median 70 years) 11 cases were diffuse large B-cell lymphomas, and 14 cases were extranodal marginal zone B-cell lymphomas (MALT lymphomas). The clinical endoscopic diagnosis was gastritis in 3, gastric ulcer in 3, gastric carcinoma in 7, carcinoid in 1, submucosal tumor in 1, malignant lymphoma in 2, and suspected MALT lymphoma in 8. In the 6 small intestinal lymphomas (male:female=2:4, age range 49-89 years, median 70 years), all cases were located in the ileum. Of the 6 cases, 4 were diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and 2 were peripheral T-cell lymphoma. One case showed multiple lymphomas, and one case was associated with rectal adenocarcinoma and one case with gastric MALT lymphoma. The clinical diagnosis was adenocarcinoma in 2, suspected lymphoma in 2, and ileal tumor in 2. In the 6 colon lymphomas (male:female=4:2, age range 69-86 years, median 74 years), 5 cases were diffuse large B-cell lymphomas and one case was follicular lymphoma. Clinical endoscopic diagnosis was GIST in 1, colon carcinoma in 4, and colon polyp in 1. Cases of Hodgkin's disease, mantle cell lymphoma, Burkitt lymphoma were not recognized in the present series. In summary, the author reported pathologic features of 37 cases of gastrointestinal malignant lymphoma in our laboratory in the last 10 years.
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PMID:Gastrointestinal malignant lymphoma: a pathologic study of 37 cases in a single Japanese institution. 2311 30