Diagnostic accuracy of pleural fluid to serum carcinoembryonic antigen ratio and delta value for malignant pleural effusion: findings from two cohorts.

Meng-Ping JiangJian-Xun WenLing HaiTing-Wang JiangJin-Hong HuangHong ChenYa-Fei WangWen-Qi ZhengZhi-Cheng ZhangLi Yan

Published in: Therapeutic advances in respiratory disease (2023)

CEA ratio and delta value cannot provide added diagnostic value to PF CEA. The simultaneous determination of serum and PF CEA should not be adopted in clinical practice.

Keyphrases

simultaneous determination
liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry
clinical practice
tandem mass spectrometry
high performance liquid chromatography
liquid chromatography
ultra high performance liquid chromatography
solid phase extraction
mass spectrometry
ms ms
high resolution mass spectrometry