THE ROLE OF SURGERY IN PRIMARY GASTROINTE STINAL NON-HODGKIN-LYMPHOMA

The role of surgery in primary gastrointestinal non-Hodgkin lymphoma i s still controverted. The author reviews the advantages of surgery, wh ich alone allows diagnosis in emergencies, serves to assess the extent of the disease, offers a means of preventing complications of chemoth erapy and radiotherapy, and has a therapeutic function. He also assess es the drawbacks of surgery and provides exact surgical indications de pending on the circumstances and localization of the lymphoma. In an a rea which has seen rapid changes in 1995, surgery still retains an imp ortant role in the therapeutic arsenal.