A 40-year-old woman presented at our hospital with rectal stenosis. Computed tomography demonstrated a conglomerate tumor in the pelvis and malignant look-alike lesions in the liver and in both lungs. A palliative deep rectum resection was …
BACKGROUND: In patients with gynecologic malignancies, a 6 kD polypeptide known as the tumor-associated trypsin inhibitor (TATI) is present in high concentrations, both in the urine and the serum. This study attempts to evaluate the usefuln…
OBJECTIVE: To show that in patients with endometriosis a 6 kD polypeptide, the tumour-associated trypsin inhibitor (TATI), can occur at elevated concentrations in serum. DESIGN: In a prospective study TATI serum levels were assessed prior …
In ovarian cancer patients a 6 kDa polypeptide, the tumour-associated trypsin inhibitor (TATI), can occur at elevated concentrations in both urine and serum. In this study pretreatment serum levels of TATI (cut-off point 21 ng ml-1) and CA …