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Eighteen patients with primary gastric malignant lymphoma were compared retrospectively with an age- and sex-matched group of patients with gastric cancer. It was found that a correct preoperative diagnosis was established in 8 out of 18 lymphoma patients (44%). Of the remaining patients eight were preoperatively diagnosed as cancers and two as benign ulcers. Malignancy was not suggested by biopsy or cytology in a total of six lymphoma patients. There was no difference as regards the size of the gastric lesion between the groups. A diffuse involvement of the stomach was found only in lymphoma patients. Furthermore, lymphoma patients often showed superficial stellate ulcers and a sharp margin between the lesion and the normal mucosa. It is suggested that these findings should make the investigator aware of the possibility of a gastric lymphoma. When this diagnosis is considered, great importance should be attached to obtaining large biopsies which possibly allow a correct preoperative diagnosis more often.
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