What you always wanted to know about gastric MALT-lymphoma: a focus on recent developments

The stomach is the most common site of origin for extranodal lymphomas, with extranodal marginal zone B-cell of the mucosa associated lymphoid tissue (MALT-lymphoma) being the predominant subtype. MALT-lymphoma develops in mucosa associated lymphoid structures acquired by infection or chronic antigenic stimuli and may therefore arise in almost any organ of the human body. In spite of histopathologic similarities between various organs upon first...