Gastric Lymphoma

Relatively rare gastric malignancy

Aetiology

  • Approximately 90 percent of patients of primary gastric lymphoma are either mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) gastric lymphoma or diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) of the stomach
  • MALT gastric lymphoma is often associated with infection with H. pylori - chronic inflammation

Clinical presentation

  • Epigastric pain
  • Early satiety
  • Fatigue
  • Weight loss
  • Melaena, haematemesis

Investigations

  • Gastroscopy + biopsy

Management

  • Treat H. pylori infection - with the stimulus removed the malignancy regresses