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8100201

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1993-7-29
pubmed:abstractText
After mastectomy and radiation for breast cancer, two patients were found to have persistent elevated CEA in their serum. This finding was erroneously attributed to occult metastases for the first patient and to local recurrence for the second. Overlooked medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) was the causal disease in both patients. A review of the literature stresses the frequency of CEA elevation in serum of MTC patients. A thorough search for any possible cause of elevated levels of CEA is advocated, particularly by thyroid sonogram with a needle aspiration biopsy when a nodule is discovered and by calcitonin assay in the serum.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0748-7983
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
19
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
305-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-7-2
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1993
pubmed:articleTitle
Elevated CEA in breast cancer patients with overlooked medullary thyroid carcinoma.
pubmed:affiliation
Institut Jules Bordet, Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Centre des Tumeurs de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't