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Oral lichen planus, hepatitis C virus, and HIV: no association in a cohort study from an area of high hepatitis C virus endemicity.
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology - 1 Sept 2004
Campisi G, Di Fede O, Craxi A, Di Stefano R, Margiotta V
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: We sought to assess the age-specific prevalence of oral lichen planus (OLP) in Mediterranean patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) and to evaluate the features of OLP in relation to sex, smoking, HCV genotype, HIV-1 coinfection, and antiviral treatments. METHODS: In all, 178 anti-HCV-positive adults (60 women and 118 men; age range 20-66 years) recruited from two cohorts (104 HIV-negative...
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