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Cholangiocarcinoma
Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma presents similar to hepatocellular carcinoma
July 14th, 2006
A study from Japan has reported on clinicopathologic features of patients with intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) who are seropositive for alpha-fetoprotein-L3 and those with combined hepatocellular and cholangiocarcinoma. "Some patients who are seropositive for lectin-reactive alpha-fetoprotein (AFP-L3) have ICC. There have been no studies regarding the features of ICC patients seropositive for AFP-L3. "Thus, the purpose of the present paper was to compare the features of ICC patients from the viewpoint of two different tumor markers, AFP-L3 and carbohydrate antigen (CA) 19-9," wrote H. Okuda and colleagues, Tokyo Women's Medical...
Source: Genomics & Genetics Weekly (2006-07-14)
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