Population
Patients with non-neoplastic conditions
Design
Review
Authors
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Consider non-neoplastic causes for CEA <10 ng/ml before malignancy workup; leaves open standardization of assay and physiological confounders in prospective studies.
CEA levels can be elevated (<10 ng/ml) in non-neoplastic conditions due to various physiological and metabolic factors, which must be considered in clinical practice.
Á. Ruibal Morell (1992) studied this question.
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