الفهرس 
Anatomy of the pleuraOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
 |  | from | 16 |  |  |
| | | from | 16 | | |
Abstract
In order to study the role of cea as an aid to solve the problem of diagnosis of etiology of pleural effusion, this study was done on 100 patients with pleural effusion. Patients were divided into 3groups according to etiology of pleural effusion, group I included 60 patients with malignant effusions, group I1 which included 20 patients with tuberculous effusions and group I11 included 20 patients with transudative pleural effusion. Pleural fluid and serum were subjected to analysis for some biochemical subsances and estimation of CEA in both pleural effusion and serum. The mean values of CEA level in serum in group I , I1 + and I11 were, 36.901 - 26.876 ng/ml, 4.089 ’ 1.197 ng/ml and + 1.744 - 0.598 ng/ml it was found that there was statistical significant increase in value of CEA in group I in comparison with group I1 and group I11 while on comparing the mean value of CEA in group I1 and I11 there was statistical significant increase of CEA value in group I1 In patients with adenocarcinoma the mean value of CEA in serum was 66.008 22.486 ng/ml in those with + squamous cell carcinoma this value was .42.77 - 22.353 ng/ml , but in patient with oat cell carcinoma it was found + to be 23.6 - 15.932 ng/ml and in those with large cell carcinoma this was 11.137 ’ 7.407 ng/rnl.