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Early pregnancy factor (EPF) as tumour marker in two patients with trophoblastic tumour
1Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, Germany.
Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
Two patients with a trophoblastic tumour (one with an invasive mole and one with a choriocarcinoma) had early pregnancy factor (EPF; detected by rosette inhibition test) in serum. In both cases the EPF already disappeared during surgery which suggests that EPF could be a useful and sensitive tumour marker if laboratory technology for its detection could be improved.