Prevalence of high risk HPV DNA in esophagus is high in brazil but not related to esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.
CONCLUSION: HPV was demonstrated to be frequently and similarly associated to normal and malignant esophageal tissues, but not as an independent risk factor to esophageal cancer.
IMPACT: To contribute to the Brazilian population data on this subject, which is still contradictory.
PMID: 28875493 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Histology and Histopathology - Category: Cytology Tags: Histol Histopathol Source Type: research
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