Acute Calculous Cholecystitis with Abnormally Elevated CA199: A Case Report

Abstract

Acute calculous cholecystitis is an inflammation caused by cystic duct obstruction and bacterial infection, which is one of the common acute abdominal diseases in general surgery. Glycochain antigen 199 (CA199) is a tumor-associated antigen found in digestive malignancies and is currently the most sensitive tumor marker for pancreatic cancer. Some benign diseases may also cause increased CA199 value to varying degrees, but the combination of abnormal increase of CA199 is very rare, which is easy to lead to misdiagnosis. Now we report the data of one case of acute calculous cholecystitis combined with abnormal increase of CA199 treated in our hospital.