This preliminary study was carried out to evaluate the behavior of AFP in 155 patients with
benign diffuse liver diseases who underwent thorough clinical and laboratory evaluation …

The serum AFP concentration in man falls rapidly after birth and its synthesis in adult life is
normally repressed. However, AFP is synthesized in large amounts by human …

KAZUHISA TAKETA in Hepatology a-Fetoprotein (AFP) is a fetal serum protein (1, 2), and its
reappearance in mice with hepatoma was demonstrated by Abelev et al.(3) in 1963 and in …

AFP is an oncofetal protein found in increased levels in hepatocellular carcinoma, liver
metastasis and other benign liver diseases. PURPOSE--To know the behaviour of this …

The clinical significance of serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) was studied in 114 patients with
liver cirrhosis, who were followed for more than one year. Out of 114 patients, serum HBs …

Results The highest AFP concentration occurred in the patients with autoimmune hepatitis,
with metastatic liver cancer and with liver cirrhosis 16.81+/-5.49 ng/ml, 9.67+/-1.48 ng/ml i …

Objective To investigate the value of a-fetoprotein (AFP) in the initial diagnosis of primary
hepatic cancer (PHC). Meth-ods A retrospective analysis was performed on the initial AFP …

The aim of the current study is to identify underlying pathology associated with elevated
serum α-fetoprotein (AFP;> 20 ng/ml) among patients referred to a tertiary-care academic …

Hepatocellular carcinoma is the 5th most common cancer in the world. Prognosis for this
disease is poor since hepatocellular carcinoma is mostly diagnosed at an advanced stage …

The association between serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) and transplantable hepatocellular
carcinoma in mice was reported by the Russian investigator Abelev in 1963. Subsequent …