PURPOSE The aim of the present study was to evaluate the clinical features, management and outcome of patients submitted to emergency surgery because of intestinal lymphoma. METHODS A consecutive series of fourteen patients with gastrointestinal tract lymphoma referred for emergency surgery between March 2006 and May 2010 was retrospectively analyzed. RESULTS Patients including 9 males (64....

G astrointestinal tract is the most common site of extranodal non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Small bowel involvement accounts for 20 30% of all gastrointestinal lymphomas (1). Among all intestinal lymphomas, the ileum is the most common involved area, with duodenal involvement only accounting for a small proportion (2). The most frequent histological type is diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). T-ce...

The intestinal microbiota and gut immune system must constantly communicate to maintain a balance between tolerance and activation: on the one hand, our immune system should protect us from pathogenic microbes and on the other hand, most of the millions of microbes in and on our body are innocuous symbionts and some can even be beneficial. Since there is such a close interaction between the imm...

Introduction: Burkitt's lymphoma is a highly aggressive non­Hodgkin lymphoma and occurs predominantly in the first decades of life in males. Often the clinical presentation is an abdominal mass associated with abdominal pain, nausea, intestinal obstruction or intussusceptions. The association between Burkitt's lymphoma and histological proven acute appendicitis is rare, and usually is secondary...

A 52-year-old Japanese woman who was eventually diagnosed with primary follicular lymphoma of the duodenum showed atypical endoscopic features, namely, erosions with peripheral whitish edematous mucosa. Initial biopsy specimens taken from the erosions revealed insufficient numbers of lymphoma cells for histological diagnosis. Subsequent biopsy specimens from the peripheral mucosa containing the...

Abstract Lymphoma (also known as lymphosarcoma) is a malignant tumor accounting for 20-30% of all neoplasms in cats. There have been no previous studies summarizing trends and characteristics feline lymphoma Latvia. The aim this retrospective study was to determine the prevalence cases among biopsy submissions private veterinary pathology service Data were retrieved by selecting records from La...

The importance of endoscopy in the diagnosis of small intestinal tumors was evaluated in 15 patients with small intestinal tumors treated in our hospital. Two tumors were benign, and 13 were malignant (carcinoma in 5 patients, malignant lymphoma in 5 and leiomyosarcoma in 3). The presence of lesions could be determined by X-rays before surgery, but definitive diagnoses were difficult. When preo...

Immunoproliferative small intestinal disease (IPSID) was recently added to the growing list of infectious pathogen-associated human lymphomas. Molecular and immunohistochemical studies demonstrated an association with Campylobacter jejuni. IPSID is a variant of the B-cell lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT), which involves mainly the proximal small intestine resulting in malabs...