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Gastric MALT lymphoma

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A low-grade malignant lymphoma of the stomach associated with chronic infection by the bacterium H.

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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