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12833889

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-7-1
pubmed:abstractText
An 81-year-old woman was admitted to our service because of high fever and severe lumbar pain. Neurological examination showed a nuchal stiffness and sensory disturbance of the lower extremities. CSF findings showed significantly elevated neutrophils and decreased glucose. MRI demonstrated intradural and epidural abscesses within the lumbar canal. In early stages of the disease, we unexpectedly found the elevated serum CEA and CA19-9. Although those tumor markers showed very high titers, we never found any evidence of the malignant tumor. Interestingly, those markers obviously decreased with the improvement of the abscess within the lumbar canal. We discussed the importance of CEA and CA19-9 in the infectious neurological diseases.
pubmed:language
jpn
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0006-8969
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
55
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
443-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-2-22
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
[A case of lumbar intradural and epidural abscesses presenting with elevated serum carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA19-9)].
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurology, Tokyo Metropolitan Neurological Hospital, 2-6-1 Musashidai, Fuchu, Tokyo 183-0042, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract, Case Reports