Our experience on the diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal lymphomas

Among the primarily extranodal lymphomas the lesions of the gastrointestinal tract are the most frequent with 25% of all cases. The location of gastrointestinal lymphomas is as follows: stomach (70%), most frequently MALT-lymphoma, small intestines, ileocoecal region (20%), large intestines (rarely). Between the years 2002 and 2007 we treated 90 patients with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma in our hospital. In 73 cases primarily nodal and other primarily extranodal locations occurred. We diagnosed lymphomas in gastrointestinal location with gastroscopy and biopsy in all together 17 patients: in 13 cases it originated from…