title: What is stage II in high-grade primary gastric lymphoma? How to define the range of "localized disease".
abstract: We conducted a retrospective analysis to evaluate the Musshoff staging system for high-grade primary gastric lymphoma (HG-PGL), particularly in those patients with stages IE and IIE localized diseases. One hundred twenty-six patients presented with stage IE or IIE diseases were retrospectively reclassified on the basis of a pretreatment CT examination as to whether there was lymph node involvement. A positive M1 node (by AJCC staging system) on pretreatment CT scanning was associated with poor clinical outcome for localized stage I or II patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Hematology-Oncology, Korea Institute of Radiological & Medical Sciences, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Yeon Hee
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Won Seog
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Soo Mee
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Bang
authors.forename: Soon Il
authors.initials: SI
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Ji Eun
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Uhm
authors.forename: Sung Hyun
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Seung-Sook
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Keunchil
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Young H
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Ko
authors.forename: Baek-Yeol
authors.initials: BY
authors.lastname: Ryoo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D015996:Survival Rate; D016896:Treatment Outcome