[Antibody deficiency syndrome of the "common variable type" with intestinal lymphatic hyperplasia and secondary gastric carcinoma].

Case report on a patient with agammaglobulinaemia, repeated respiratory infections, diarrhoea and nodular lymphoid hyperplasia of the small intestine. Giardia lamblia was seen in duodenal aspirates. B-lymphocytes were not decreased, but no plasma cells could be found. Later the patient developed a gastric carcinoma, which was also described in previous case reports.