Increased CA 125 in tuberculous peritonitis.
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Increased CA 125 in a patient with tuberculous peritonitis: case report and review of published works.
A case of a middle aged woman with weight loss, ascites, and a pleural effusion is presented where a clinical diagnosis of ovarian cancer was made. Her CA 125 was greatly increased at 873 IU/ml and the ascites was a lymphocytic exudate but cytology failed to show malignant cells. Operative biopsy showed numerous noncaseating granulomas in the omentum but no mycobacterial organisms were seen. Em...
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عنوان ژورنال: Gut
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0017-5749
DOI: 10.1136/gut.37.2.297-a