glossary:gastric_malt_lymphoma
Gastric MALT lymphoma: A low-grade malignant lymphoma of the stomach associated with chronic infection by the bacterium Helicobacter pylori. Three-quarters of gastric MALT lymphomas regress after the eradication of H. pylori with antibiotics. The one-quarter that are unresponsive to antibiotics carry a characteristic chromosomal translocation or are at an advanced stage. The translocation is of the t(11;18)(q21;q21) type.
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Common Misspellings: gastric malt limpoma, gastric malt lypoma, gastric malt lymphnoma, gastric malt lympoma, gastric malt lynphoma
glossary/gastric_malt_lymphoma.txt · Last modified: 2012/10/16 14:40 (external edit)
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