Nayak, N. C. ; Chawla, Veena ; Malaviya, A. N. ; Chandra, R. K. ; Agarwal, S. S. (1972) α-Fetoprotein in Indian childhood cirrhosis The Lancet, 299 (7741). pp. 68-69. ISSN 0140-6736
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Abstract
Of forty-two children with Indian childhood cirrhosis nineteen (45%) α-fetoprotein (A.F.P.) in the serum by the gel-diffusion technique, even when they were older than 1 year. This seems to be the first record of a disease other than hepatoma or teratocarcinoma showing persistence or reappearance of A.F.P. in such a high proportion of individuals. The possibility that the presence of A.F.P. in these children indicates an inherent developmental defect of the liver cell needs elucidation.
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