Resumen

ERNESTO BELTRAN, Brady, QUINONES AVILA, Pilar, MORALES LUNA, Domingo et al. Linfoma de Celulas Grandes B Difuso Gastrointestinal del Anciano Asociado al Virus Epstein Barr: Reporte de Cinco Casos y Revision de la Literatura. Rev. gastroenterol. Perú, jul./set. 2011, vol.31, no.3, p.285-288. ISSN 1022-5129.

EBV-positive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) in elderly is a new entity included provisionally in the most recent WHO Classification of lymphoid neoplasms. It usually affects elderly patients and has a poor survival. The goal of this report was to evaluate clinical, endoscopic characteristics and survival of five patients with this entity and gastrointestinal afectation. From five cases, three cases had gastric infiltration, one ileon and one in cecum.

Palabras llave: diffuse large B-cell lymphoma; EBV; gastrointestinal.