Adenosquamous Carcinoma of the Head and Neck: Relationship to Human Papillomavirus and Review of the Literature

Head and Neck Pathology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 108-116

  Masand, Ramya P ^a   El Mofty, Samir K ^a   Ma, Xiao Jun ^b   Luo, Yuling ^b   Flanagan, John J ^b   Lewis Jr , James S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Advanced Cell Diagnostics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenosquamous carcinoma; Human papillomavirus; p16; p53

Indexed keywords

E6 PROTEIN, HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 16; ONCOGENE PROTEIN E7, HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 16; ONCOPROTEIN; P16 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN E7; PROTEIN P53; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TUMOR MARKER; TUMOR PROTEIN; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ADENOSQUAMOUS CARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ALPHAPAPILLOMAVIRUS; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; FATALITY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METABOLISM; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE CANCER; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALPHAPAPILLOMAVIRUS; CARCINOMA, ADENOSQUAMOUS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DNA, VIRAL; FATAL OUTCOME; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, VIRAL; PAPILLOMAVIRUS E7 PROTEINS; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, VIRAL; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79957473832     PISSN: 1936055X     EISSN: 19360568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12105-011-0245-3     Document Type: Review

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