Papilloma vs. Condyloma - A Subtle Distinction

Human papilloma virus-16 causing giant condyloma acuminata

A 28-year-old multiparous lady presented to the Gynaecology outpatient department with a 12 × 5 cm warty growth in the vulva. A biopsy of the growth revealed condyloma acuminata of the vulva. Simple vulvectomy was done. A PCR of the specimen detected the presence of human papilloma virus (HPV)-16 which is usually considered as a high-risk HPV type for carcinogenesis.

Beyond the "descriptive vs. procedural" distinction

There has come to be a consensus that the “procedural vs. declarative” distinction is useful, if only as a rough guide, in the design of markup languages. To understand how and why this is the case, we need to ask questions that are usually left unasked when this principle is proposed, such as “is it the model (the schema) that we consider to be descriptive, or the tagged document?” or, more de...

Human papilloma virus infection (condyloma) of the uterine cervix in Japanese women.

Fifty-seven cases previously diagnosed as either dysplasia or carcinoma in-situ by three Japanese medical centers were reviewed and reclassified as either condyloma, CIN I, II, III or squamous metaplasia. Of 46 cases previously diagnosed as mild or moderate dysplasia (CIN I-CIN II) 13 were reclassified as condylomata. Immunoperoxidase localization of human papilloma virus antigens was negative ...

Killing vs. letting die: a moral distinction before the courts.

Condyloma acuminatum and human papilloma virus infection in the oral mucosa of children.

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to investigate the clinicopathological features of oral condylomas in children and condylomatous lesions of their mothers. Moreover, the authors sought to determine the mode of transmission of this disease and to find the genotype of human papilloma virus (HPV) in the children's oral condyloma. METHODS Nine instances of oral condyloma acuminatum in childr...