J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.
ISSN 1880-1129

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J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 85(6): 616-620, 1984

Original article

A CASE OF ALPHA-FETOPROTEIN PRODUCING RECTAL CANCER

First Department of Surgery, Kyoto University, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
*) Laboratory of Anatomic Pathology, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan

Hideki Noda, Shunzo Maetani, Takayoshi Tobe, Takahiko Nohara*)

A case of AFP producing rectal cancer was represented in this paper. The patients, 68 years old man, was admitted because of anal bleeding and preoperative examinations revealed rectal cancer without liver metastasis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Serum AFP measured preoperatively was 2750―3500 ng/ml and CEA was 23―33 ng/ml.
The patient underwent amputation of the rectum and there were no abnormal masses in the liver at surgery.
After operation serum AFP and CEA levels were normalized. Histology of the rectal tumor showed a tubular adenocarcinoma of moderately differentiated type.
In the specimen, AFP producing tumor cells were detected by immunoenzymatic labelling (PAP) methods.

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