Is there a role for surgical resection in the treatment of early-stage pancreatic lymphoma?1

Clinical Features and Treatment Outcomes of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphomas Involving Rare Extranodal Sites: A Single-Center Experience

“…Systemic chemotherapy has been regarded as the best therapeutic approach for NHL involving rare extranodal sites, even if the disease is localized [15,16]. In our study, the outcomes of patients who received surgery followed by chemotherapy failed to show an additional survival benefit over chemotherapy with or without radiotherapy (table 2).…”

Pancreatic Masses: Not All of Them are Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: Differential Diagnosis

“…La pa ro tomy may be re qu i red for de fi ni ti ve di ag no sis in so me ca ses. 16 The first ca se was di ag no sed af ter ma jor open surgery, ho we ver the se cond one was di ag no sed by fine-ne ed le as pi ra ti on bi opsy ac cu ra tely.…”

Colangite como uma manifestação clínica atípica de linfoma pancreático: relato de caso

“…A better prognosis with nonsurgical treatment is additional impetus to search for secondary signs of primary pancreatic lymphoma 10,11 . On the other hand there are experience in the literature that suggests that surgical resection may play a beneficial role in the treatment of localized pancreatic lymphoma 6 . Koniaris relate a review of the pancreatic lymphoma in the English language literature where fifty-eight of these cases represented stage I or II lymphoma, which was treated without surgical resection with a 46% cure rate.…”

“…Koniaris relate a review of the pancreatic lymphoma in the English language literature where fifty-eight of these cases represented stage I or II lymphoma, which was treated without surgical resection with a 46% cure rate. Fifteen patients who had surgical resection for localized disease have been reported with a 94% cure rate 6 . It is important to emphasize that intraoperative biopsies were fundamental for the diagnosis and prognosis.…”