Human papillomavirus frequency in oral and oropharyngeal cancer in Greece

Anticancer Research

Volumn 28, Issue 4 B, 2008, Pages 2077-2080

  Romanitan, Mircea ^a   Näsman, Anders ^a   Ramqvist, Torbjörn ^a   Dahlstrand, Hanna ^a   Polykretis, Leonidas ^b   Vogiatzis, Prokopis ^b   Vamvakas, Periklis ^b   Tasopoulos, Georgios ^a   Valavanis, Christos ^b   Arapantoni Dadioti, Petroula ^b   Banis, Konstantinos ^b   Dalianis, Tina ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b METAXA CANCER HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

HPV; Oral cancer; Oropharyngeal cancer; Tonsillar cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOUTH CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONSIL CANCER; WART VIRUS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DNA, VIRAL; GREECE; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS 16; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TONGUE NEOPLASMS; TONSILLAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 49049095525     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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