Abstract
Elevated serum levels of creatine kinase (CK) were found in a patient with small-(oat) cell carcinoma of the lung. Fractionation of the enzyme showed markedly elevated CK-MB and CK-BB isoenzymes. Clinical and subsequent pathological examination showed no evidence of infarction, inflammation, or tumor involvement of the heart; however, analysis of tumor tissue for CK showed predominance of CK-MB and CK-BB isoenzymes, thus implicating tumor as the source of the circulating levels of CK-MB and CK-BB. Our case is the first to document CK-MB from neoplastic tissue homogenates, and illustrates that markedly elevated circulating levels of CK-MB, or increased levels of CK-MB in combination with CK-BB may point away from a myocardial source, and toward the existence of a malignancy.
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