title: MALT-type primary lymphoma of the urinary bladder: clinicopathological study of 2 cases and review of the literature.
abstract: Primary lymphoma of the bladder is a rare non-epithelial bladder tumour. It is usually non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma being its predominant subtype. Most of the literature has been limited to individual sporadic case reports. We present 2 cases of the MALT-type primary lymphoma of the urinary bladder which were treated in our unit. Both patients were females with a history of recurrent urinary tract infections. They were treated successfully with chemotherapy alone. We also present a review of the literature emphasising the clinical presentation, the morphological and immunophenotypic features and the various treatment modalities of this rarely seen bladder pathology.
authors.affiliation: Pinderfields and Pontefract Hospitals, West Yorkshire, UK.
authors.forename: H D
authors.initials: HD
authors.lastname: Wazait
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Chahal
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Sundurum
authors.forename: G N
authors.initials: GN
authors.lastname: Rajkumar
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wright
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Aslam
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D018442:Lymphoma, B-Cell, Marginal Zone / Q000473:pathology*; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*