Detection of Merkel cell polyomavirus in epidermodysplasia-verruciformis- associated skin neoplasms

Dermatology

Volumn 222, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 87-92

  Mertz, K D ^a,c   Schmid, M ^a   Burger, B ^d   Itin, P ^d   Palmedo, G ^e   Scharer L ^e   Kutzner, H ^e   Fernandez Figueras M T ^f   Cribier, B ^g   Pfaltz, M ^a   Kempf, W ^a,b  

^a Kempf and Pfaltz Histological Diagnostics   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Cantonal Institute of Pathology   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e Dermatopathologische Gemeinschaftspraxis   (Germany)

^f HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Cutaneous oncogenesis; Epidermodysplasia verruciformis; Human papillomavirus; Merkel cell polyomavirus

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDERMODYSPLASIA VERRUCIFORMIS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; MALE; MERKEL CELL POLYOMA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; POLYOMA VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; VERRUCA VULGARIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BETAPAPILLOMAVIRUS; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; EPIDERMODYSPLASIA VERRUCIFORMIS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYOMAVIRUS; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 79951680094     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000321880     Document Type: Article

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