[A case of alpha-fetoprotein-producing fetal gut-like small intestinal cancer]

Nihon Shokakibyo Gakkai Zasshi. 2013 May;110(5):833-8.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

A 72-year-old Japanese woman was admitted because of vomiting and abdominal pain. An enhanced computed tomography scan showed a small intestinal obstruction due to ileal wall thickening and multiple liver metastases. Her serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) level was high at 1671.9ng/ml. An ileocecal resection was performed. The histological diagnosis was AFP-producing small intestinal cancer resembling the primitive gut epithelium of a fetus. The present case suggested that even intestinal cancer could produce AFP.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Epithelium / pathology
  • Female
  • Fetus
  • Humans
  • Ileal Neoplasms / metabolism*
  • Ileal Neoplasms / pathology
  • Neoplasm Metastasis
  • alpha-Fetoproteins / biosynthesis*

Substances

  • alpha-Fetoproteins