Journal:
:hepatitis monthly
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shawky abdelhamid fouad department of internal medicine, faculty of medicine, cairo university, cairo, egypt; department of internal medicine, faculty of medicine, cairo university, cairo, egypt. tel: +20-01223658902
nagwa abdel ghaffar mohamed department of clinical and chemical pathology, national research center, giza, egypt
mary wadie fawzy department of internal medicine, faculty of medicine, cairo university, cairo, egypt
doaa ali moustafa department of internal medicine, faculty of medicine, cairo university, cairo, egypt
conclusions plasma opn is comparable to afp as a diagnostic marker and is related to the severity of liver involvement in hcc patients. plasma opn is of diagnostic potential value in nafld. background osteopontin (opn) is a secreted glycoprotein and is frequently associated with various tumors. objectives we sought to investigate the clinical usefulness of the level of plasma opn, compared to α...
