Abstract
A female patient in her sixties with gastric follicular lymphoma is presented. She was initially diagnosed as having double cancers in the rectum and ascending colon. As pre-operative screening, gastrofiberscopy was performed and a submucosal tumor was found in the stomach. It was 5mm in diameter and was deemed to require follow-up only. A year later, the tumor had grown to 15mm in diameter. Endoscopic ultrasonography showed the tumor to exist in the second and third layers. Immunofluorescent staining indicated a diagnosis of follicular lymphoma. With no evidence of metastasis on other examinations, we performed laparoscopic wedge resection of the stomach including the tumor. Ten months after laparoscopic surgery, there are no symptoms of recurrence.
