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Surgical staging identified false HPV-negative cases in a large series of invasive cervical cancers.
Papillomavirus research (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 1 Dec 2017
Petry Karl Ulrich, Liebrich Clemens, Luyten Alexander, Zander Martina, Iftner Thomas
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: We examined a large series of biopsy-proven invasive cervical cancers with surgical staging and HPV re-testing to estimate the relevance of HPV-negative cervical cancers in a Caucasian population. METHODS: We prospectively collected smears from 371 patients with a biopsy-proven diagnosis of cervical cancer for HC2 testing of high-risk HPV (HR-HPV). In HC2-negative cases, smears and paraffin embedded...
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