title: Elevated CK-MB and CK-BB in serum and tumor homogenate of a patient with lung cancer.
abstract: Elevated serum levels of creatine kinase (CK) were found in a patient with small-(oat) cell carcinoma of the lung. Fractionation of the enzyme showed markedly elevated CK-MB and CK-BB isoenzymes. Clinical and subsequent pathological examination showed no evidence of infarction, inflammation, or tumor involvement of the heart; however, analysis of tumor tissue for CK showed predominance of CK-MB and CK-BB isoenzymes, thus implicating tumor as the source of the circulating levels of CK-MB and CK-BB. Our case is the first to document CK-MB from neoplastic tissue homogenates, and illustrates that markedly elevated circulating levels of CK-MB, or increased levels of CK-MB in combination with CK-BB may point away from a myocardial source, and toward the existence of a malignancy.
authors.forename: B I
authors.initials: BI
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Bach
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Horton
authors.forename: T M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Hickey
authors.forename: W A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Davis
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D018288:Carcinoma, Small Cell / Q000201:enzymology*; D003402:Creatine Kinase / Q000097:blood*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007527:Isoenzymes; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase / Q000097:blood; D008168:Lung / Q000201:enzymology; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000201:enzymology*; D008297:Male; D009132:Muscles / Q000201:enzymology; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000201:enzymology; D009206:Myocardium / Q000201:enzymology
chemical_list: D007527:Isoenzymes; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase; D003402:Creatine Kinase