Gastric adenocarcinoma in a patient re-infected with H. pylori after regression of MALT lymphoma with successful anti-H. pylori therapy and gastric resection: a case report.
BMC Gastroenterol
; 2: 6, 2002.
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| ID: mdl-11914140
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) has been etiologically linked with primary gastric lymphoma (PGL) and gastric carcinoma (GC). There are a few reports of occurrence of both diseases in the same patients with H. pylori infection. CASE PRESENTATION We report a patient with PGL in whom the tumor regressed after surgical resection combined with eradication of H. pylori infection. However, he developed GC on follow up; this was temporally associated with recrudescence/re-infection of H. pylori. This is perhaps first report of such occurrence.CONCLUSIONS:
Possible cause and effect relationship between H. pylori infection and both PGL and GC is discussed. This case also documents a unique problem in management of PGL in tropical countries where re-infection with H. pylori is supposed to be high.
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Assunto principal:
Neoplasias Gástricas
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Adenocarcinoma
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Helicobacter pylori
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Infecções por Helicobacter
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Linfoma de Zona Marginal Tipo Células B
Limite:
Adult
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2002
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Article