Twenty-three (85%) of 27 patients with pancreatic cancer tested for CEA by the method of Gold were positive. The CEA assay was more frequently positive in patients with cancer of the pancreas than were any other diagnostic tests used, including upper gastrointestinal series,g hypotonic duodenography
Significance of carcinoembryonic antigen levels and cytology of pure pancreatic juice in diagnosis of pancreatic cancer
โ Scribed by Masaharu Tatsuta; Hisako Yamamura; Reiko Yamamoto; Yataka Okano; Takeshi Morii; Shigeru Okuda; Hiroshi Tamura
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1983
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 889 KB
- Volume
- 52
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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