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ArticleJournal of surgical case reports2019

False-positive elevated CEA during colon cancer surveillance: a cholecystitis case report diagnosed by PET-CT scan.

Alireza Emami Ardekani, Hamidreza Amini, Zeinab Paymani, Armaghan Fard-Esfahani

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Article in Journal of surgical case reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Alireza Emami ArdekaniResearch Center for Nuclear Medicine, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Hamidreza AminiResearch Center for Nuclear Medicine, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Zeinab PaymaniResearch Center for Nuclear Medicine, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Armaghan Fard-EsfahaniResearch Center for Nuclear Medicine, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 53-year-old man with previous history of sigmoid colon adenocarcinoma who had undergone surgical resection and adjuvant chemotherapy presented with slightly rising carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), while anatomical imaging modalities were unremarkable. FDG PET-CT study did not identify residual tumoral disease; however, there were abnormalities in the gallbladder most likely suggestive of cholecystitis. Eight weeks after cholecystectomy, serum CEA concentration reached normal values. Final histopathology of the gallbladder was also consistent with acute on chronic cholecystitis.

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PMCPMC6565823

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