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'Hepatoma-specific' alphafetoprotein may permit preclinical diagnosis of malignant change in patients with chronic liver disease.

The only hope for effective treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC or 'hepatoma') lies in early diagnosis. Measurement of the serum alphafetoprotein (AFP) level is potentially a useful screening test. When grossly raised, it is almost diagnostic of HCC. However, modestly elevated level...

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Autores principales: Johnson, P. J., Leung, N., Cheng, P., Welby, C., Leung, W. T., Lau, W. Y., Yu, S., Ho, S.
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Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group|1 1997
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Acceso en línea:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2063272/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9010032
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