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High risk HPV types in southern Iranian patients with cervical cancer.
Pathology oncology research : POR - 1 Jan 2003
Farjadian S, Asadi E, Doroudchi M, Dehaghani A Samsami, Tabei S Z, Kumar V P, Ghaderi A
Abstract excerpt
This study was undertaken to assess the rate of HPV infection in cervical carcinoma among southern Iranian patients. 101 archival cervical carcinoma tissue samples of a 10 year period were studied for the presence of HPV DNA in southern Iran by a polymerase chain reaction method. In addition, the presence of high risk HPV-16 and HPV-18 genotypes was investigated. In total, 88 (87.1%) of the samples were HPV DNA...
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