Responses
Other responses
Jump to comment:
- Published on: 26 July 2001
- Published on: 20 July 2001
- Published on: 26 July 2001Re: Problems with the diagnosis and treatment of gastric lymphomasShow More
Dear Editor,
Dr. Ely seems to have confounded the definition of "high grade component" with that of "high grade MALT lymphoma" in our paper. Based on the previous study by de Jong and colleagues,[1] we used 1% cut off value for the presence or absence of high grade component. When the high grade component cells were less than 10% among the neoplastic lymphoid population, such cases were categorized as low grad...
Conflict of Interest:
None declared. - Published on: 20 July 2001Problems with the diagnosis and treatment of gastric lymphomasShow More
Editor,
Although it is valuable in some respects, the study from Nakamura et al (Gut 2001;48:454-460) highlights and potentially exacerbates a critical stumbling block in the diagnosis and treatment of gastric lymphomas.
The authors divide gastric "MALT" lymphomas into low grade and high grade, based on the absence or presence of, "... clusters or sheets of large cells [comprising] at least 1% of the neopla...
Conflict of Interest:
None declared.