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Study of C-reactive protein in bilharziasis and malignancy as causes of ascites
M S Amer1, H A Sedky, A A Fekry
1Department of General Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain-Shams University, Abbassia, Cairo.
Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology
|December 1, 1991
Abstract:
C-reactive protein titre was estimated in serum and ascitic fluid in 23 patients, 12 with cancer stomach accompanied by liver metastatases and 11 with bilharzial liver fibrosis. The results showed no statistically significant differences between the titre in serum and ascitic fluid in the group of cancer with mean of serum/ascitic level ratio 1.3, while in bilharzial group there was significant difference with ratio mean 6.3.