Alpha-fetoprotein in the serum of patients with neoplasms of the gastrointestinal tract.
Serum alpha-fetoprotein was estimated in 61 patients with neoplasms of the gastrointestinal tract, 29 healthy controls and 10 pregnant women. Almost half ot the patients had increased values of alpha-fetoprotein and no parellelism between alpha-fetoprotein and liver metastasis was found. Decreasing of the alpha-fetoprotein during the postoperative period could be considered a sign for a total removal of the tumor, and, on the contrary -- increasing of alpha-fetoprotein -- for a recurrence.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005326:Fetal Proteins / Q000032:analysis*; D005770:Gastrointestinal Neoplasms / Q000097:blood* / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000097:blood; D011247:Pregnancy; D000509:alpha-Fetoproteins / Q000032:analysis*
D005326:Fetal Proteins; D000509:alpha-Fetoproteins