ABSTRACT
Serum alph-foetoprotein [AFP] was detected by radioimmunoassay among 100 patients with malignant tumours, 58 patients with liver diseases and 58 normal Individuals. The range of AFP among the latter group was 0-15.7 Ng/ml. AFP levels above 20 Ng/ml were detected among patients with gastric carcinoma, mixed seminoma-teratoma, ovarian yolk sac tumour, hepatoma, liver secondaries, liver cirrhosis, chronic hepatitis, acute hepatitis and asymptomatic HBsAg carriers. The rest of our patients showed AFP levels within the normal range. These results provided local Information on AFP levels in normal individuals and in patients with the above mentioned diseases. Furthermore, counter current immunoelectrophoresis technique was improved to detect as low as 50 Ng/ml of AFP. This Improvement provided a useful means for the semiquantitation of AFP in less than I hour In most of the cases with elevated AFP levels
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Neoplasms , Liver DiseasesABSTRACT
A rare medical case is reported for the first time in Iraq in a women of 35 years of age born with cyanosis not accompanied with dyspnea, the cause of cyanosis was found to be rare haemoglobin called methaemoglobin M. This condition is usually classified as hereditary, other ordinary causes of cyanosis was excluded by proper investigations