title: Intestinal lymphoma: a case report.
abstract: Primary intestinal lymphoma is rare representing about 0.5% of all colonic malignancies. It can be classified into two principal categories: follicular B cell lymphomas and intestinal T cell lymphomas. Other intestinal diseases are very important such as immunoproliferative small intestinal disease (IPSID), a prelymphomatous process, and MALT lymphomas, caused by infection of Helicobacter pylori (H. Pylori). We present a 79-year-old male patient which presented with abdominal pain in the upper parts of abdomen of four months' duration, colic timpanists, tenderness, distention, weight loss. Sometimes the abdominal pain decreased expelling diarrheal dejections. Histological and immune-histochemical tests on bioptic piece helped to reach the diagnosis of lymphoma but only after histological investigation on operative piece was made the diagnosis of B-cell lymphoma. This case report shows that an accurate diagnosis, the evaluation of the extension and the presence of particular infections and/or co morbidities (H. Pylori positive, age, performance status) are fundamental to decide the therapeutic protocol.
authors.affiliation: Research Centre The Great Senescence, Department of Senescence, Urological and Neurological Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Catania, Italy. m.malaguarnera@email.it
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Malaguarnera
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Giordano
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rando
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Puzzo
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Trainiti
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Consoli
authors.forename: V E
authors.initials: VE
authors.lastname: Catania
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D015703:Antigens, CD / Q000032:analysis; D001706:Biopsy; D003082:Colectomy; D016481:Helicobacter Infections / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007414:Intestinal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D016393:Lymphoma, B-Cell / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D015703:Antigens, CD