Gastric and colonic mantle cell lymphoma - incidental discovery

J Gastrointestin Liver Dis. 2009 Mar;18(1):85-8.

Abstract

A 65-year old patient, with no medical history, was admitted for lower gastrointestinal bleeding. On clinical examination the patient seemed to be in good health. However the examination was completed with a rectosigmoidoscopy revealing the presence of mucosal erosions, ulcerations, multiple papulae. The histopathological examination raised the suspicion of a colonic lymphoma. Gastric biopsies suggested a gastric MALT type lymphoma associated to the colonic lymphoma, but the immunohistochemical profile corresponded to a mantle cell lymphoma. In spite of the general poor prognosis of mantle cell lymphoma, our patient had a good clinical and endoscopic response to the standard cyclophosphamide, vincristine, prednisone (CVP) therapy. The cases of gastric and colonic mantle lymphoma are rare, the response to therapy is poor; fortunately, our patient had a complete resolution after completion of the six cycles of chemotherapy.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use
  • Biopsy
  • Colonic Neoplasms / complications
  • Colonic Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Colonic Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Cyclophosphamide / therapeutic use
  • Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / etiology
  • Humans
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • Incidental Findings*
  • Lymphoma, Mantle-Cell / complications
  • Lymphoma, Mantle-Cell / drug therapy
  • Lymphoma, Mantle-Cell / pathology*
  • Male
  • Prednisone / therapeutic use
  • Sigmoidoscopy
  • Stomach Neoplasms / complications
  • Stomach Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Stomach Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Vincristine / therapeutic use

Substances

  • Vincristine
  • Cyclophosphamide
  • Prednisone

Supplementary concepts

  • COP protocol 2