title: Management of primary gastric lymphomas from a surgeon's viewpoint.
abstract: Primary gastric lymphoma is a relatively uncommon disease and controversy still exists over its management. In order to assess prognostic factors of lymphomas, we carried out a retrospective study of 28 surgically treated gastric lymphoma patients. The overall survival rate for all the patients in the study was 33% at 10 years. On univariate analysis, lymph node metastasis and depth of tumor infiltration proved to be a significant prognostic factor while size and location of tumor, sex, and method of resection was not. From our results we believe that gastric lymphoma can be regarded as a localized disease in the early stages and a curative resection can be attained when aggressive surgery is possible.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Keio University Hospital, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ishizuka
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kubota
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hayashi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Otani
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kumai
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kitajima
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D016403:Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D015996:Survival Rate; D016896:Treatment Outcome