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HPV typing in women with cervical precancerous and cancerous lesions in northwestern Iran.
Gynecologic and obstetric investigation - 1 Jan 2008
Esmaeili Mohsen, Bonyadi Mortaza, Dastranj Ali, Alizadeh Masoumeh, Melli Manizheh Sayyah, Shobeiri Mehri Jafari
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BACKGROUND/AIMS: The role of human papillomavirus (HPV) in the etiology of cervical cancer is now well established. This investigation was designed to study the prevalence of the four most common high-risk HPVs in the archival tissues with precancerous and cancerous lesions from patients from northwestern Iran. METHODS: 133 formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue specimens were tested for HPV DNA by using...
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