Serum and tissue CEA in gastric mucosa of patients with hepatosplenomegaly

ABSTRACT

This work was carried out to clarify the possibility of neoplastic transformation in patients with atrophic gastritis complicating endemic hepatosplenomegaly and to identify those with or at a special risk of developing premalignant or malignant gastric lesions. Estimation of CEA in the gastric tissue and serum of these patients will be our tool. This study was carried out on 3 groups. The study group included 35 patients having endemic hepatosplenomegaly associated with atrophic gastritis, the control group one comprised 10 normal individuals and control groups II included 18 patients with gastric adenocarcinoma. After detailed history, full clinical examination all study groups were subjected to complete urine and stool analysis and gastric biopsies were taken by endoscopy and stained by H and E. Paraffin section were further stained by tissue CEA and lastly serum estemation of CEA level was evaluated. These results were statistically analysed tissue CEA was positive in [37.1%], study group compared to 0% in normal individuals and [100%] in control group in having gastric adenocarcinoma while serum CEA was insignificantly higher than in normal group and significantly lower than control group II. No significant association was found between serum CEA and degree of mucosal atrophy. More over no significant association was found between serum CEA and tissue CEA in study group. These data conclude that atrophic gastritis complicating hepatosplenomegaly have increase incidence of tissue CEA than normal. Twenty per cent of those patients had level serum CEA higher than the cut off value denoting that these patients are at higher risk of developing carcinoma