Research Article

Primary Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma of Stomach: To Report 54 Patients and Analysis of Major Reported Series

Table 5

Characteristics of some major reported series of primary gastric lymphoma in the literature.

Author [ref]CountryYearPatients’ numberMedian age (range)Male/female ratioMost frequent histological type

Medina-Franco et al. [5]Mexico 1990–200041 52.60.86Large cell lymphoma
Danzon et al. [6]France1989–19973611.24High grade
Park et al. [7]Republic of Korea1990–200421455 (21–81)1.27Only high grade
Bani-Hani et al. [8]Jordan1991–200219DLCL
Economopoulos et al. [9]Greece1977–19832955 (21–74)2.2Diffuse histiocytic
Huang et al. [11]China2001–20088352 (15–81)1.18DLCL
Muller et al. [12]UK1973–19924565 (25–84)1.5High grade
Luo et al. [16]China1990–20036850 (25–82) 1.93
Barreda et al. [17]Peru1995–20001690.83DLCL
Durr et al. [18]USA1975–19913563DLCL
Lybeert et al. [23]The Netherlands1982–19928169.7 (30–88)Intermediate grade
Parvez et al. [24]Saudi Arabia 1990–199822DLCL
Schmidt et al. [25]Germany1985–20009260 (29–85)DLCL
Shaw et al. [19]New Zealand1969–1987 620.87
Takahashi et al. [26]Japan1974–19968560.51.07
Aoyagi et al. [27]Japan1980–19942559.6 (26–89)0.92
Waisberg et al. [28]Brazil1973–20011662.8 (40–83)3Low grade
Koch et al. [29]Germany 1996–200439863.2 (20–83)1.2DLCL
Al-Bahrani et al. [20]Iraq1965–19783242.6 (12–70)2.5PDLL
Present studyIran1998–20125450 (17–75)0.86DLBCL

DLCL: diffuse large cell lymphoma; DLBCL: diffuse large B-cell lymphoma; PDLL: poorly differentiated lymphocytic lymphoma; DFS: disease-free survival; OS: overall survival; LDH: lactic dehydrogenase.