title: [Urinary carcinoembryonic antigen in patients with urothelial tumors. Correlations with the stage of the disease and the modal chromosome number].
abstract: The carcino-embrionary antigen was estimated in 26 patients without malignant diseases (15 with inguinal hernia and 11 with urinary lithiasis--all of them before surgery), and in 47 patients with urothelial tumors. The direct radioimmune technique was used (a commercial kit from France /CEA IRE SORIN/) applied to isolated samples of sterile urine obtained at 12 hours. It was noted that:--patients without urologic disturbances had values under 1.5 micrograms in 12 hours in 93.4% of the cases;--in 44% of patients with non-malignant urological diseases (urinary lithiasis) the antigen values ranged between 1.5 and 3.0 micrograms in 12 hours;--patients with urothelial tumors had high values of the urinary carcinoembrionary antigen, in the range between 1.92 and 162.5 micrograms;--concentration of the urinary carcino-embionary antigen increases with the stage of the disease, with tumor polyploidia and in tumors with a high degree of anaplasia;--10--14 days after the removal of the tumor the values of the carcino-embrionary antigen show a significant decrease, even after total cystectomy but with cutaneous uretherostomy.
mesh_terms: D002272:Carcinoembryonic Antigen / Q000652:urine*; D005189:False Positive Reactions; D006801:Humans; D007669:Kidney Calculi / Q000150:complications; D008722:Methods; D014552:Urinary Tract Infections / Q000150:complications; D014571:Urologic Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*
chemical_list: D002272:Carcinoembryonic Antigen
vernacular_title: Antigenul carcinoembrionar urinar la bolnavii cu tumori uroteliale. Corelaţii cu stadiul bolii şi numărul cromozomial modal.