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CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN

The beta subunit of human chorionic gonadotropin. It is used as a clinical marker to facilitate early detection of usual pregnancy and vastly contributes to the diagnosis of different pregnancy-related disorders, such as ectopic pregnancy, spontaneous abortion, hydatidiform mole, choriocarcinoma, or trisomy 21. Further, determination of this marker is immensely helpful to manual curative intervention in testicular cancer. Another possible clinical uses includes as a marker of cancers of the bladder, pancreas, or biliary tract. (scan j clin lab invest suppl 1993;216:97-104)
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