Primary pancreatic non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma

PubMed, the Internet portal of biomedical and life sciences literature, indexed an interesting article, entitled Primary pancreatic non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (Srp Arh Celok Lek. 2005 May-Jun;133(5-6):276-9). Diffuse large-cell B lymphoma of the pancreas is a rare disease, representing less than 1% of all non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas and less than 0.9% of all malignant tumours of the pancreas .The tumours are more frequent in the head of the pancreas then in other parts of the organ. They are usually larger (average size of 8 cm) and are non-resectionable. As a rule, exact diagnosis is based on the histology and the immunohistology. The disease usually responds positively to immunochemotherapy. The authors of the article would like to point out the importance of a proper histological diagnosis, which permitted the application of immunochemotherapy alone or together with additional radiotherapy with at least temporarily favourable results. To access the full abstract of the article, click here.