A novel rapid colorimetric assay of carcinoembryonic antigen levels in the abdominal cavity to detect peritoneal micrometastasis during gastric cancer surgery

Cancer Letters

Volumn 149, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 1-5

  Tsutsumi, Souichi ^a   Asao, Takayuki ^a   Shimura, Tatsuo ^a   Mochiki, Erito ^a   Kato, Ryouji ^a   Kuwano, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carcinoembryonic antigen; Colorimetric assay; Gastric cancer; Peritoneal micrometastasis; Peritoneal washing

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIBODY; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMOSURGERY; COLORIMETRY; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CANCER; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ABDOMEN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; COLORIMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033984450     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(99)00311-0     Document Type: Article

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