Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: High grade B-cell gastric lymphoma with complete pathologic remission after eradication of helicobacter pylori infection: Report of a case and review of the literature | BioMed Central World Journal of Surgical Oncology Open Access Review High grade B-cell gastric lymphoma with complete pathologic remission after eradication of helicobacter pylori infection Report of a case and review of the literature Luigi Cavanna 1 Raffaella Pagani1 Pietro Seghini1 Adriano Zangrandi2 and Carlo Paties2 Address 1Medical Oncology-Hematology Department Hospital of Piacenza 29100 Piacenza Italy and 2Department of Pathology Hospital of Piacenza 29100 Piacenza Italy Email Luigi Cavanna - Raffaella Pagani - Pietro Seghini - Adriano Zangrandi - Carlo Paties - Corresponding author Published 19 March 2008 Received 23 February 2007 __ re . n_ _AAAO _J_ .IA I IOAU77 7010 - f Accepted 19 March 2008 World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6 35 doi l477-78l 9-6-35 This article is available from http content 6 l 35 2008 Cavanna et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Treatment of primary gastric diffuse large B-cell lymphoma is still controversial. The treatment of localized disease was based on surgery alone or followed by chemotherapy and or radiotherapy. High-grade gastric lymphomas are generally believed to be Helicobacter pylori HP -independent growing tumors. However a few cases of regression of high-grade gastric lymphomas after the cure of Helicobacter pylori infection had been described. Case presentation We report here a case with primary diffuse large B-cell lymphoma that showed a complete pathologic remission after HP eradication and we reviewed the literature. A computerized literature reach through Medline Cancerlit and Embase were performed