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<Articles JournalTitle="Journal of Family and Reproductive Health">
  <Article>
    <Journal>
      <PublisherName>Tehran University of Medical Sciences</PublisherName>
      <JournalTitle>Journal of Family and Reproductive Health</JournalTitle>
      <Issn>1735-8949</Issn>
      <Volume>3</Volume>
      <Issue>2</Issue>
      <PubDate PubStatus="epublish">
        <Year>2009</Year>
        <Month>06</Month>
        <Day>15</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </Journal>
    <title locale="en_US">Extra-ordinary High CA-125 and CA19-9 Serum Levels in an Ovarian Endometrioma: Case Report</title>
    <FirstPage>67</FirstPage>
    <LastPage>70</LastPage>
    <AuthorList>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Marzieh</FirstName>
        <LastName>Agha Hosseini</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Shariati Hospital (Department of Infertility), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Ashraf</FirstName>
        <LastName>Aleyasin</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Shariati Hospital (Department of Infertility), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Sepideh</FirstName>
        <LastName>Khodaverdi</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Shariati Hospital (Department of Infertility), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Atossa</FirstName>
        <LastName>Mahdavi</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Shariati Hospital (Department of Infertility), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Zahra</FirstName>
        <LastName>Najmi</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Shariati Hospital (Department of Infertility), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran</affiliation>
      </Author>
    </AuthorList>
    <History>
      <PubDate PubStatus="received">
        <Year>2015</Year>
        <Month>10</Month>
        <Day>04</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </History>
    <abstract locale="en_US">Endometriosis is an estrogen dependent disease. Levels of Cancer antigen-125 are significantly higher in women with moderate to severe endometriosis. However, patients with unruptured endometriosis rarely have serum CA-125 levels more than 1000 U/mL. This case report presents a diffuse, unruptured ovarian endometrioma in a 29- year-old woman, leading to an extraordinary high serum CA-125 and CA19-9 levels; usually typical of advanced ovarian carcinoma. Our experience emphasizes on benign gynecologic conditions such as endometrioma, which should be taken into account as a possible differential diagnosis in women with exaggerated elevation of the serum CA-125 level.</abstract>
    <web_url>https://jfrh.tums.ac.ir/index.php/jfrh/article/view/69</web_url>
    <pdf_url>https://jfrh.tums.ac.ir/index.php/jfrh/article/download/69/69</pdf_url>
  </Article>
</Articles>
