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Open Journal of Gastroenterology, 2012, 2, 93-100 OJGas /10.4236/ojgas.2012.23020 Published Online August 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ojgas/) Diagnostic value of a panel of tumor markers as a part of a diagnostic work-up for ascites of unknown etiology 1* 2 3 2 4 Soha Saoud Abdelmoniem , Eman Mosad Zaki , Hala Mostafa Imam , Hosny Badrawy , Sanaa Ali , Doaa Wadeeh Maximous5 1Tropical Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt 2Clinical Pathology Department, Molecular Biology Lab, South Egypt Cancer Institute, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt 3Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt 4Clinical Pathology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Quina University, Quina, Egypt 5Surgical Oncology Department, South Egypt Cancer Institute, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt * Email: sosaoud@ Received 11 March 2012; revised 12 April 2012; accepted 19 April 2012 ABSTRACT ascetic fluid cytology, laparotomy and biopsy, imag- ing and other laboratory tests in diagnosing ascites of Background Objectives: Data regarding tumor mar- unknown etiology. ker usefulness in diagnosing ascites of unknown eti- ology and determining its malignant nature are con- Keywords: Tumor Markers; Ascites of Unknown flicting. We aim to assess the diagnostic value of as- citic and serum tumor markers in ascites of unknown Etiology etiology