Unusually High Levels of CA19-9 Associated with Mature Cystic Teratoma of the Ovary

Introduction. Mature cystic teratoma is the benign tumor of the ovary. CA19-9 levels, although a marker of pancreatic malignancy, have been found to be raised in large ovarian mature cystic teratomas. Case Report. We report a case of a young female who had unusually high levels of CA19-9 in the bloo...

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Autores principales: Madaan, Monika, Puri, Manju, Sharma, Ritu, Kaur, Harvinder, Trivedi, Shubha Sagar
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Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4170748/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25276448
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/187910
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author Madaan, Monika
Puri, Manju
Sharma, Ritu
Kaur, Harvinder
Trivedi, Shubha Sagar
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description Introduction. Mature cystic teratoma is the benign tumor of the ovary. CA19-9 levels, although a marker of pancreatic malignancy, have been found to be raised in large ovarian mature cystic teratomas. Case Report. We report a case of a young female who had unusually high levels of CA19-9 in the blood associated with large ovarian mature cystic teratoma. The levels returned to normal 12 weeks after cystectomy was performed. Conclusion. This case highlights the fact that although raised tumor marker may be associated with a benign pathology thorough evaluation to rule out malignancy still must be done.
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spelling pubmed-41707482014-09-28 Unusually High Levels of CA19-9 Associated with Mature Cystic Teratoma of the Ovary Madaan, Monika Puri, Manju Sharma, Ritu Kaur, Harvinder Trivedi, Shubha Sagar Case Rep Obstet Gynecol Case Report Introduction. Mature cystic teratoma is the benign tumor of the ovary. CA19-9 levels, although a marker of pancreatic malignancy, have been found to be raised in large ovarian mature cystic teratomas. Case Report. We report a case of a young female who had unusually high levels of CA19-9 in the blood associated with large ovarian mature cystic teratoma. The levels returned to normal 12 weeks after cystectomy was performed. Conclusion. This case highlights the fact that although raised tumor marker may be associated with a benign pathology thorough evaluation to rule out malignancy still must be done. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-09-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4170748/ /pubmed/25276448 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/187910 Text en Copyright © 2014 Monika Madaan et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Unusually High Levels of CA19-9 Associated with Mature Cystic Teratoma of the Ovary
title Unusually High Levels of CA19-9 Associated with Mature Cystic Teratoma of the Ovary
title_full Unusually High Levels of CA19-9 Associated with Mature Cystic Teratoma of the Ovary
title_fullStr Unusually High Levels of CA19-9 Associated with Mature Cystic Teratoma of the Ovary
title_full_unstemmed Unusually High Levels of CA19-9 Associated with Mature Cystic Teratoma of the Ovary
title_short Unusually High Levels of CA19-9 Associated with Mature Cystic Teratoma of the Ovary
title_sort unusually high levels of ca19-9 associated with mature cystic teratoma of the ovary
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4170748/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25276448
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/187910
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