Gallbladder cancer laboratory tests
|
Gallbladder cancer Microchapters |
|
Diagnosis |
|---|
|
Treatment |
|
Case Studies |
|
Gallbladder cancer laboratory tests On the Web |
|
American Roentgen Ray Society Images of Gallbladder cancer laboratory tests |
|
Risk calculators and risk factors for Gallbladder cancer laboratory tests |
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Vamsikrishna Gunnam M.B.B.S [2]
Overview
There are no diagnostic laboratory findings associated with gallbladder cancer
Laboratory tests
- Laboratory studies are usually nondiagnostic.[1][2]
- An elevated alkaline phosphatase or serum bilirubin can be associated with bile duct obstruction.
- Serum tumor markers including carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) or carbohydrate antigen 19-9 are frequently elevated, but they're no longer diagnostically useful because they lack specificity and sensitivity.
- CA 242 is a tumor marker for gallbladder cancer and performs better than CEA and CA 19-9.
- However, if a tumor marker is observed to be elevated preoperatively, serial assay after resection may useful resource within the analysis of chronic or recurrent disease.
References
- ↑ Strom BL, Maislin G, West SL, Atkinson B, Herlyn M, Saul S, Rodriguez-Martinez HA, Rios-Dalenz J, Iliopoulos D, Soloway RD (1990). "Serum CEA and CA 19-9: potential future diagnostic or screening tests for gallbladder cancer?". Int. J. Cancer. 45 (5): 821–4. PMID 2335386.
- ↑ Rana S, Dutta U, Kochhar R, Rana SV, Gupta R, Pal R, Jain K, Srinivasan R, Nagi B, Nain CK, Singh K (2012). "Evaluation of CA 242 as a tumor marker in gallbladder cancer". J Gastrointest Cancer. 43 (2): 267–71. doi:10.1007/s12029-011-9288-7. PMID 21573879.