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Usefulness of ascitic fluid cholesterol as a marker for malignant ascites.

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2005

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Satya Vati Rana, Sad G. Venkatesh Babu, Rakesh Kocchar
PubMed

Abstract

Total Ascitic protein (70%), Ascitic serum protein ratio (74%), ascitic leukocyte count (54%), and malignant cytology (82%) yielded much lower diagnostic efficiency than ascitic fluid cholesterol (94%) or SAAG (86%) in the diagnosis of malignant ascites.