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Low grade B cell gastric mucosa associated lymphoma presenting as upper gastrointestinal bleeding from non-healing stomal ulcers.

Misra SP, Misra V, Dwivedi M

Department of Gastroenterology, Motilal Nehru Medical College, Allahabad, India. misrasp@rediffmail.com

Primary gastric lymphoma is a rare tumour. It is thought that low grade gastric mucosa associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma has not been previously reported to occur in a patient with gastrojejunostomy. This report describes such a case. The patient presented with bleeding from non-healing stomal ulcers. The ulcers healed and there was regression of the tumour after eradication of Helicobacter pylori.

Published 9 February 2005 in Postgrad Med J, 81(952): 135-7.
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