title: [A case of alpha-fetoprotein-producing fetal gut-like small intestinal cancer].
abstract: A 72-year-old Japanese woman was admitted because of vomiting and abdominal pain. An enhanced computed tomography scan showed a small intestinal obstruction due to ileal wall thickening and multiple liver metastases. Her serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) level was high at 1671.9ng/ml. An ileocecal resection was performed. The histological diagnosis was AFP-producing small intestinal cancer resembling the primitive gut epithelium of a fetus. The present case suggested that even intestinal cancer could produce AFP.
authors: Department of Gastroenterology, Matsusaka Chuo General Hospital, Japan. yasuyuki.tamai@miekosei.or.jp
authors: Yasuyuki
authors: Y
authors: Tamai
authors: Kazuhiko
authors: K
authors: Kobayashi
authors: Yuji
authors: Y
authors: Haruki
authors: Takazumi
authors: T
authors: Yada
authors: Shinji
authors: S
authors: Urade
authors: Tetsuro
authors: T
authors: Harada
authors: Tetsuya
authors: T
authors: Beppu
authors: Hiroaki
authors: H
authors: Naota
authors: Takenari
authors: T
authors: Yamanaka
authors: Kazuo
authors: K
authors: Fukudome
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004848:Epithelium / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005333:Fetus; D006801:Humans; D007078:Ileal Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D000509:alpha-Fetoproteins / Q000096:biosynthesis*
chemical_list: D000509:alpha-Fetoproteins