title: Value of serum 125Ca levels: does the result preclude second look?
abstract: Forty-five women with known histories of ovarian cancer underwent reoperative surgery. Thirty-seven patients underwent routine second-look laparotomy and eight patients were reexplored with clinical evidence of disease with the intent of re-resection. Preoperative CA 125 levels were obtained. Evaluation as to the predictive value of the CA 125 level and operative findings show a positive predictive value of 100% and a negative predictive value of 54%. Twenty of the forty-five patients had gross disease present on reoperation. Twenty patients were found to have persistent disease at reoperation. Twenty-five percent of patients with CA 125 levels less than or equal to 35 U/ml and 37% of these with CA 125 levels greater than 35 U/ml were resectable to no gross disease at the completion of the reoperation. CA 125 levels greater than or less than 35 U/ml were not predictive of the potential for re-resectability of the tumor.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Alabama, Birmingham 35294.
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Potter
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Moradi
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: To
authors.forename: K D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Hatch
authors.forename: H M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Shingleton
mesh_terms: D015295:Antigens, Tumor-Associated, Carbohydrate / Q000032:analysis*; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000276:immunology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007813:Laparotomy; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D012086:Reoperation
chemical_list: D015295:Antigens, Tumor-Associated, Carbohydrate