Alpha-Fetoprotein in a Patient with Gastric Carcinoma Metastatic to the Liver

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Abstract
ALPHA-fetoprotein (AFP) is detectable in the serums of most patients with hepatoma and not in those of normal adults or adult patients with a variety of liver and neoplastic diseases. The presence of this normal fetal globulin in adults has been found to be diagnostic of primary liver carcinoma.1 2 3 4 5 6 Measurable amounts of AFP were detected in the serum of the following case of gastric carcinoma, which was shown at autopsy to be metastatic to the liver.Case ReportM.G. (M.G.H. 151–49–10), an 82-year-old woman, entered the hospital in July, 1968, because of progressive nausea, vomiting, fever and weakness of about . . .