Epidemiologic, clinical, and pathologic features of lymphomas at the Peruvian hospital: Hospital Nacional Cayetano Heredia.

e12041 Background: During the decade 70’ to 90’ incidence of lymphomas in Lima, Peru increased from 3.4 to 7.5 per 100 000 females and from 6 to 8.3 per 100 000 males. We describe epidemiological, clinical and pathologic features of patients with lymphoma diagnosed at the Hospital Nacional Cayetano Heredia (HNCH), center of reference of Lima north. Methods: Retrospective study of 433 patients with lymphoma diagnosed from 1998 to 2008 at the HNCH. Results: The mean age was 44.8 years (range 1 to 93 years), the ratio was 1.5:1 for male and female respectively, 85.9% were Non Hodgkin Lymphoma (LNH). In Hodgkin diseases’ patients the mean age was 34 years and ratio male: female was 2:1; whereas, in NHL, the average age was 45.9 years and ratio male: female was 1.4:1. The more frequently symptoms were weight loss (40.5%) and lymphadenopathy (36.7%). The 55.08% were clinical stage I-II. The most frequent location was nodal (55.1%). More frequently extra nodal locations were: gastrointestinal (15.2%) and skin (1...