Human papillomavirus-positive tonsillar carcinomas: A different tumor entity?

Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 192, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 129-132

  Klussmann, Jens P ^a   Weissenborn, Soenke J ^a   Wieland, Ulrike ^a   Dries, Volker ^a   Eckel, Hans E ^a   Pfister, Herbert J ^a   Fuchs, Pawel G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Human papillomavirus; Laser assisted microdissection; Quantitative polymerase chain reaction; Tonsillar cancer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER SCREENING; CHROMOSOME MICRODISSECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; TONSIL CARCINOMA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VIRUS LOAD; WART VIRUS;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DNA, VIRAL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PAPILLOMAVIRIDAE; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TONSILLAR NEOPLASMS; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 0041328623     PISSN: 03008584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00430-002-0126-1     Document Type: Article

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