Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) in serum and bile of colorectal cancer patients with or without detectable liver metastases - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 1994 May-Jun;14(3B):1409-12.

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Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) in serum and bile of colorectal cancer patients with or without detectable liver metastases

M Paganuzzi et al. Anticancer Res. 1994 May-Jun.

Abstract

It has been suggested that bile CEA levels could represent a sensitive index for the detection of occult liver metastases in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients. We measured serum and gallbladder bile CEA concentrations in a control group, in a group of patients with benign disease of the biliary tree, and in patients with CRC at different stages. Neoplastic patients without evidence of liver metastases at the time of laparotomy, but with elevated biliary CEA levels, were selected for a follow-up study. Our results indicate that (a) bile CEA levels are falsely increased in several benign biliary diseases; (b) CRC patients with detectable liver metastases have elevated biliary CEA levels; (c) high biliary CEA levels do not represent a predictive parameter for the presence of occult liver metastases in CRC patients.

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