Follow-up of colorectal cancer resected for cure - An experience with CEA, TPA, Ca 19-9 analysis and second-look surgery

Diseases of the Colon & Rectum

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1987, Pages 273-277

  Fucini, Claudio ^a   Tommasi, Silvia Maria ^a   Rosi, Stefano ^a   Malatantis, Giorgio ^a   Cardona, Gaetano ^a   Panichi, Sergio ^a   Bettini, Ugo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

CEA; Colorectal cancer; Monoclonal antibodies; TPA

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; TISSUE POLYPEPTIDE ANTIGEN; TUMOR ANTIGEN; TUMOR MARKER;

COLON CANCER; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LARGE INTESTINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM RESECTION;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; ANTIGENS, TUMOR-ASSOCIATED, CARBOHYDRATE; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PEPTIDES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REOPERATION; TISSUE POLYPEPTIDE ANTIGEN;

EID: 0023157128     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02556172     Document Type: Article

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