Lymphoma of the Urinary Bladder

Table 4

List of some of the reported studies on lymphoma of the urinary bladder with outcome.

References	Types and numbers of lymphomas of the urinary bladder	Types of management	Duration of followup	Outcome	Total
Bates et al. [2]	6 cases of primary lymphoma; 3 extranodal marginal zone lymphoma of MALT type; 3 diffuse B-cell lymphomas	Various details are not available; 66 years/female, large bladder mass-low-grade MALT-type lymphoma T3	1 year	Indolent course with good prognosis; Alive	1
		79 years/female; Low-grade MALT-type	No followup	Unknown	1
		59 years female T2-T3 low grade MALT type		Alive with disease	1
		84 years/female, T3 diffuse large B-cell lymphoma	3 years; 6 months	Died of disease after 6 months
		67/years male, Solid tumour diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, had radiotherapy and chemotherapy	16 years	Alive with disease after 16 years
		80 years/female; Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, had radiotherapy	3 years 8 months	Alive and well after 3 years 8 months
	5 cases of secondary lymphoma; 4 diffuse large B-cell lymphoma; 1 nodular sclerosis non-Hodgkin’s disease	Various details are not available to author	4 patients had followup up to 13 months	4 patients died within 13 months of followup
	65-year-old male laparotomy showed mass involving ileum and generalised lymphadenopathy. Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma secondary to systemic follicular lymphoma		13 months	Died of disease after 13 months; Died of disease after 10 months
	41 years/male; Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma had caecal mass and abdominal lymph adenopathy biopsy showed malignant lymphoma had radiotherapy and chemotherapy	Radiotherapy and chemotherapy	10 months
	32 years/male, necropsy showed abdominal mass and lymphadenopathy. Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma		Died of disease.; No followup	Died of disease.; Died of disease after 1 month
	76/female, mass in lower abdomen, swollen left leg, lymphadenopathy in left groin, and right axilla. Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma; 81-year-old, female known Hodgkin’s		1 month; No followup	No follow-up
	Disease developed to nodular sclerosis Hodgkin’s disease of bladder
Kempton et al. [3]	Primary B-cell MALT-type lymphoma of bladder in 6 patients; Nonlocalized lymphoma (17 cases); 1 low-grade lymphoma of MALT type; 12 large cell lymphoma; 4 follicle centre lymphoma; Secondary lymphoma occurred in 13 patients (2 with low-grade lymphoma of the MALT type; 1 with follicle centre lymphoma; 1 with mantle cell lymphoma; 9 with diffuse large B-cell lymphomas	Various	1940 to 1996	Complete remission. No patient died and no patient developed recurrent disease.; Excluding two patients who died postoperatively, median survival was 9 years; 6 patients died of lymphoma in the follow-up group; Median survival was 0.6 years	6 patients
Al-Maghrabi et al. [4]	4 cases of primary lymphoma; (they had B-cell; centrocyte-like cells plasmacytoid or both)	All patients were treated by radiotherapy	2 to 13 years	Good prognosis (all the four with no recurrence and alive)	4 patients