BACKGROUND Infection with human papilloma virus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the world. Among the 630 million new cases of HPV that occur each year, 30 million develop anogenital warts. Although subclinical infection with HPV is the most common cause, genital warts are also associated with immunosuppression caused by HIV. In view of the high prevalence of HPV/HIV co-...

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis of a bidirectional association of anogenital and oral cavity/pharyngeal human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated cancers in men. DESIGN Population-based epidemiological study using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results cancer database. SETTING Population-based cancer study involving patients receiving care in the United States. PARTICIPANTS The stud...

A 49-year-old man with a long-standing history of alcohol abuse was admitted to the Nephrology Department because acute kidney injury. Previous medical unremarkable. Physical examination revealed severe dehydration and large (15 × 25 cm) verrucous mass (Figure 1A ) an associated ulceration localized in anal region. Small lesions were also on lower abdomen scrotum 1B). Testing for human immunode...

We report the case of 3-year-old girl with condyloma acuminatum. She was brought to our clinic with pruritus, painful urination and four discharge and treated with electrocautery. Histological examination revealed acanthosis, nuclear basophilic inclusions and vacuolar degeneration. In this case, transmission of the human papilloma virus might have occurred during close, non-sexual contact with ...

Number of lesions Single: 29 patients Single: 3 patients Duration of lesions 1 month to 7 years (6 patients more than 1 year) 1 month to 2 years (5 patients more than 1 year) Risky sexual practices 28 patients (partner with condyloma, 7 cases) 5 patients (partner with condyloma, 1 case) Associated STD HIV status in 1 patient Gonococcal urethritis, 1 patient Latent syphilis, 1 patient Active hep...

To our knowledge, this is the first study that focuses on risk factor of urethral condyloma (UC). The subjects of our study included genital warts patients who had been diagnosed as having condyloma acuminatum of penile skin (CAPS) with/without UC. Relationship with UC of number of life time female partners, co-infection with urethritis, circumcision status, number of CAPS and wart diameter wer...

To cite: Hamzelou S, Sadeghinia A, Allameh SF, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2014204827 DESCRIPTION A 50-year-old man presented with a small solitary pink-to-skin coloured plaque of 1 year duration on his penile shaft. The surface of the plaque was verrucose and not inflamed (figure 1). The patient mentioned severe pruritus. He had recent ...

Anogenital warts are caused by infection with HPV. There are >100 of these double-stranded-DNA papovaviruses characterised, with most now fully DNA-sequenced. HPV is transmitted sexually in most cases but can also be transmitted prenatally, by auto-inoculation or hetero-inoculation from non-genital warts. Anogenital warts have a 60% transmission rate between partners. Over 95% of genital warts ...