A Giant Simple Liver Cyst That Caused Increases in Serum CA 19-9 and CA 15-3 Levels
Bulent Dinc, Ayhan Mesci, Selcan Enver Dinc, Alten Oskay
Abstract
Simple cysts (SCs) of the liver are not associated with the biliary malformations in intrahepatic bile duct biliary. Seen in 0.1% to 7% of adult population, biliary malformations are more common in women. The levels of glycoprotein-like tumor markers (carbohydrate antigen (CA) 19-9) in the cysts and serum could be high. Although studies regarding CA 19-9 exist, sufficient data on cancer antigen (CA) 15-3 are not available. This case is about a 76-year-old woman who complained of painless intra-abdominal mass. The patient with a giant simple cyst extending from the gallbladder to the pelvis had preoparative CA 19-9 and CA 15-3 serum levels of 87.3 IU/L and 37 IU/L respectively. It was observed that CA 19-9 levels had decreased to 36 IU/L and CA 15-3 to 28.1 IU/L in blood samples taken in the third month after the surgery. There is a need for comprehensive studies to investigate the relationship between the size of the cyst and biomarkers (including markers such as CA 15-3) in the assesment of liver SC.
J Clin Med Res. 2014;6(6):487-489
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/jocmr1950e
Keywords
Liver; Cysts; CA 19-9; CA 15-3
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