The role of surgery in primary gastric lymphoma

Abstract

This study was carried out in Erciyes University Medical Faculty, department of general surgery, between 1985-1999. In the present study 315 patients were operated on for gastric carcinoma and 24 (7.6 %) of them had primary gastric lymphoma and were included in the study. They were evaluated retrospectively according to their histopathologic types, tumour sizes and stages, surgical and adjuvant treatments and survival rates. The patients were divided into two groups. The first group was constituted from 9 patients whom radical surgical treatment could be done and the second group was constituted from 15 patients whom palliative surgical treatment could be done. Stage I, II patients in group 1 had favourable survival when compared with stage III, IV patients in both groups (p

Özet

Erciyes Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Genel Cerrahi Kliniğinde, 1985-1999 yılları arasında mide kanseri nedeniyle ameliyat edilen 315 hastadan histopatolojik tanısı mide lenfoması olan 24 (% 7.6) olgu çalışmaya alındı. Bu olgular retrospektif olarak; tümörün histopatolojik tipi, tümör evresi, tümör büyüklüğü, uygulanan cerrahi yöntem, adjuvan tedavi, sağkalım oranları açısından değerlendirildi. Radikal cerrahi uygulanan 9 hasta (grup 1) ve radikal cerrahi uygulanamayan 15 hasta (grup 2) olmak üzere iki gruba ayrıldı. Grup 1 evre I ve II'deki hastalarda, grup 1 ve grup 2 evre III ve IV hastalara oranla daha uzun 5 yıllık sağkalım vardı (p