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Papillomavirus in esophageal papillomas and carcinomas
1999-03-01
Abstract excerpt
Human papillomavirus (HPV) has been implicated as a possible etiological factor in the development of squamous-cell carcinoma of the esophagus. Published data demonstrating HPV DNA in these lesions have been conflicting, varying between failure to detect HPV DNA to detection of up to 60% to 70% of the biopsies harboring HPV DNA, mainly HPV 16 and HPV 18. We have analyzed esophageal carcinoma samples from 2 high-ri...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 3d0fec7e-d693-53d1-b5e2-edf9fb3a17ed
- DOI
- 10.1002/(sici)1097-0215(19990301)80:5<681::aid-ijc8>3.3.co;2-1
