Some aspects in diagnostics of tumors of the liver

Khatuna Kaladze, Giorgi Fifia, Sergej Svistunov

5 Central Military Clinical Hospital of Military - Air Forces, Krasnogorsk, Russia,
Clinic of Thoracoabdominal surgery of the Georgian State Medical Academy, Tbilisi, Georgia

The results of US-guided aspiration biopsy and immuno-fermentative analysis of definition of blood alpha –fetoprotein (AFP) at 120 patients with tumors of a liver are presented in the article. US-guided aspiration biopsy is a painless and exact method of diagnostics both good-quality, and malignant tumors of liver. By results of high level of AFP was diagnosed in 88, 6 % the patient with hepatocellular carcinoma and 82, 8 % with metastatic defeat of a liver. In all cases of good-quality tumors of a liver the test was negative. The method possesses with high specificity and may be served in differential diagnostics of neoplasm of a liver. In summary it is possible to note, that combined use of both methods on sensitivity surpasses each of them separately and is the optimal at diagnostics of tumors of a liver.

Keywords:  alpha fetoprotein, liver tumors, US diagnostics, US-guided aspiration biopsy