We report a case of 68-year-old woman suffering from breathlessness on exertion with stridor. A chest computed tomography showed a tumor arising from the posterior wall of the trachea. The diagnosis was squamous cell papilloma of the surgically removed tumor, which had caused the asphyxiation. After removal of the tumor, the patient received radical therapy: semiconductor laser transpiration. P...

conclusions it seems that smoking cannot increase the prevalence of high risk hpv 16, 18 in saliva samples. results there were no high-risk types of virus in patients and no significant differences between the groups (p = 1). patients and methods a hundred healthy adult subjects were selected from zahedan dental school for this pilot study. dna was isolated from saliva samples and screened for ...

Background & Objective:  Ovarian cancer is one of the most common cancers amongst women. The association of Human papillomavirus (HPV) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) with ovarian cancer is inconclusive; therefore, the aims of this study were to evaluate the frequency of HPV and EBV in malignant, ...

background and aims: ovarian cancer is one of most common causes of cancer related women's mortalities. human papilloma virus is a known factor concerning cervical cancer but its role in causing ovarian cancer is not yet verified. a few studies also identified hpv dna in ovarian carcinoma tissues. however, some studies did not detect hpv dna in ovarian carcinoma tissues. in this article, we inv...

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 ...