title: Survival after curative resection for stage IE and IIE primary gastric lymphoma.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  There is considerable controversy regarding the optimal treatment of patients with primary gastric lymphomas. However, surgery still plays an important role in the management of stage IE and IIE gastric lymphomas. We aimed at assessing survival of primary gastric lymphoma cases with stage IE or IIE that were surgically treated at the Surgical Oncology Department.
  
  
  METHODS
  Thirty-seven patients with stage IE and IIE primary gastric lymphoma who were surgically treated and had complete follow-up from January 1990 to September 1998 were reviewed retrospectively. Patients' age, gender, tumor location, tumor grade, histologic type, depth of tumor invasion, regional lymph node status, tumor stage, type of gastrectomy (total/subtotal), combined resection, extensive lymphadenectomy, adjuvant chemotherapy were used as the clinicopathologic variables.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Five-year survival rates for stage IE and stage IIE disease were 75% and 37%, respectively. The overall 5-year survival rate of the patients was 57%. Univariate analysis demonstrated that age, tumor stage, and type of gastrectomy were associated with prognosis, but only type of gastrectomy (subtotal gastrectomy) and tumor stage were found to be independent prognostic factors (P < 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  To obtain prolonged survival we recommend radical resection with extensive lymphadenectomy for malignant lymphoma stages IE and IIE. Patients with small distal lymphomas of the stomach can be treated with subtotal gastric resection.
authors.affiliation: Ankara University, Medical School, Surgical Oncology Department, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bozer
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Eroglu
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Unal
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Eryavuz
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kocaoglu
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Demirci
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery*; D016019:Survival Analysis