1. Gastric Cancer with a Very High Serum CA 19-9 Level
- Author
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Mineko Higuchi, Minoru Matsuda, Atsushi Nagase, Hidenori Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki Furukawa, Takako Kawakami, Kazuya Kato, Kazuhiko Onodea, and Masahiko Taniguchi
- Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Stomach ,Gastroenterology ,CA 15-3 ,Cancer ,Adenocarcinoma ,medicine.disease ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,CA 19-9 ,Internal medicine ,Pancreatic cancer ,medicine ,lcsh:Diseases of the digestive system. Gastroenterology ,CA19-9 ,Published: April 2011 ,Lymph ,lcsh:RC799-869 ,Gastric cancer ,business ,Antrum - Abstract
Carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA 19-9) is a sensitive marker for pancreatic and hepatobiliary malignancies. The highest frequency of elevated serum CA 19-9 levels is found among patients with pancreatic cancer. CA 19-9 has recently been demonstrated to be a marker of digestive tract malignancies. We report the case of a patient with a gastric cancer and a very high serum CA 19-9 level. During laparotomy, a large mass was found in the antrum. A distal gastrectomy with D2 dissection of the lymph nodes was performed. Histological examination, including immunohistochemistry, revealed an adenocarcinoma of the stomach producing CA 19-9. To the best of our knowledge, no patient with an extremely high serum CA 19-9 level resulting from a gastric adenocarcinoma has been reported previously.
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- 2011