FIVE CASES OF EARLY STAGE SUPERFICIAL SPREADING TYPE MALIGNANT LYMPHOMA OF THE STOMACH

Abstract

We report five cases of early stage, superficial spreading type malignant lymphoma of the stomach. Macroscopically, they may look irregular shallow ulcers or erosions diffusely spreaded or nodular elevated lesions around ulcers resembling “cobblestone” or “bull's-eyes ign”. Other diseases may sometimes present a similiar picture. Therefore, it is difficult to make a correct diagnosis at the beginning from reactive lyniphoreticular hyperplasia (RLH), depressed types of early gastric carcinoma and many other diseases. Our two cases were correctly diagonosed as maliganant lymphoma before operation. One case was saspected as IIc-type early gastric cancer. Two cases were followed up for many years as RLH.