Abstract

NORLAN DE LA CRUZ, Alfonso; DE JESUS, Zuleyma Carolina  and  KINDELAN MEDINA, Caridad. Linfoma gástrico tipo malt presentación de un caso. Gen [online]. 2008, vol.62, n.1, pp.64-67. ISSN 0016-3503.

Female patient, Caucasian, 50 years old, who turned up for Gastroenterology consult of the „Simon Bolivar‰Popular Clinic, remitted from their health area , because of epigastric abdominal pain of moderate intensity with two months of evolution, with burning sensation, besides nauseas and vomiting. The upper digestive endoscopy showed a big ulceration in the cardial portion and granulate mucosa in the bottom of stomach. The histological study with inmunohistochemistry revealed a B extranodal cell non Hodgkin lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT). She completed treatment for eradication of Helicobacter pylori . Fourteen months later, the histopathologic evaluation reported a chronic atrophic gastritis without atypical cells and an absence of infection for Helicobacter pylori. At the moment she is asymptomatic and has a biannual follow-up.

Keywords : Gastric malt lymphoma.