[Role of endoscopy in lymphomatous pathology of the digestive tract].
Increasingly frequent reports of lymphoma with a gastro-intestinal primary location have stimulated much interest. Symptomatology has been shown not to be very specific, and scarcely different to that of other gastro-intestinal pathologics, both benign and malignant. The identification of some endoscopic pictures which suggest a lymphomatosic pathology and the possibility of collecting targeted biopsy samples, have placed endoscopy among the most important tests in the diagnostic and staging phase of gastro-intestinal lymphoma. This technique plays an equally important role in the follow-up period, since it allows the therapeutic efficacy of treatment to be assessed and the early identification of possible relapses.
Vigneri
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Servizio per le Malattie dell'Apparato Digerente ed Endoscopia Digestiva, Università degli Studi di Palermo.
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Scialabba
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A
Pisciotta
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G
Muratore
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F
Fontana
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N
D016099:Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal; D005770:Gastrointestinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D009367:Neoplasm Staging
Il ruolo dell'endoscopia nella patologia linfomatosa del tubo digerente.