An uncommon presentation of gastric lymphoma in young male patient: mimicking acute necrotizing pancreatitis clinically and on blood investigations

Abstract

Primary gastric lymphoma is considered most common primary type of extra-nodal non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and constitutes approx. 5% of total gastric malignancy. As the clinical symptoms of gastric lymphomas are nonspecific, diagnosis of gastric lymphoma is often difficult clinically. This case report presents a case of non-Hodgkin lymphoma which presents clinically and on blood investigations as acute necrotizing pancreatitis. This case is being prepared in view of its rarity and also to alert the treating physicians to consider underlying gastric lymphoma as an uncommon cause in some unexplained cases of pancreatitis.

Keywords

• gastric lymphoma
• pancreatitis
• non-hodgkin lymphoma
• diffuse large b-cell lymphoma.