title: [Gastric lymphomas: surgical indications].
abstract: Primary gastric lymphoma (PGL) are lymphomas with an exclusive gastric localization. Histologically they are B-like non-Hodgkin lymphomas. Aim of Authors' study is to define the role of surgery in the treatment of PGL, on the basis of their series casistics and a review of the more recent literature data. The Authors observed 41 patients (23 F and 18 M) in a period of 10 years: 35 patients underwent to surgical operation associated in 18 of them to chemotherapic treatment; in 6 cases medical eradication of Helicobacter Pylori (H.P.) was performed as unique treatment. Antibiothic treatment allows the eradication of H.P. in 97% of the patients and a histologic decreasing of MALT lymphoma in 70% of the patients in about 6 months. That represents the first therapeutic choice for the low grade of malignancy MALT PGL at I and II stages. In the cases of partial decreasing or progression of PGL, the Authors consider opportune surgical operation. In the majority of the cases the surgical option represents, according to our advise, the best choice for the high percentage of definitive recoveries, allowing a 10 or more years of surviving of the 90%, if it is done in the first stages of the disease. The results of the association with neoadjuvant or aduvant chemotherapy are still controversial. On the basis of their experience total gastrectomy can be considered the elective choice operation, with IID level lymphadenectomy and possible splenectomy.
authors.affiliation: Università degli Studi di Catania, Dipartimento di Chirurgia.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Benfatto
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Catania
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: D'Antoni
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zanghi
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Licari
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tenaglia
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Giovinetto
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fancello
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Cannata
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Giovinetto
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005743:Gastrectomy / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D018442:Lymphoma, B-Cell, Marginal Zone / Q000601:surgery; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013156:Splenectomy; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome