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Betapapillomavirus infection profiles in tissue sets from cutaneous squamous cell-carcinoma patients.
International journal of cancer - 1 Jun 2010
Plasmeijer Elsemieke I, Neale Rachel E, Buettner Petra G, de Koning Maurits N C, Ter Schegget Jan, Quint Wim G V, Green Adele C, Feltkamp Mariet C W
Abstract excerpt
Human papillomaviruses from the genus beta (betaPV) are a possible cause of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). We compared the betaPV infections in SCC and in sets of cutaneous tissues collected from a series of individual SCC patients to determine concordance and to assess the adequacy of eyebrow hairs as noninvasive markers of betaPV infection. Biopsies of SCC tumors, perilesional tissue, normal skin from...
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