Gastric MALT lymphoma, clinical features
Udvardy, M.
Orvosi Hetilap 140(6): 291-294
1999
ISSN/ISBN: 0030-6002 PMID: 10071508 Document Number: 500474
Gastric mucosa associated lymphoma (MALT) can be regarded as a pathogenetic continuum of reactive B lymphocyte accumulation due to Helicobacter pylori infection, which after a series of mutation may presumably transform into a low grade and later on into a high grade MALT lymphoma. If the lymphoma is confined to the mucosa or strictly to the superficial part of gastric wall, a conventional, regular Helicobacter pylori eradication procedure has a good chance to bring about clinical, histological and less frequently molecular biological remission as well.