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RNAscope for In situ Detection of Transcriptionally Active Human Papillomavirus in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Published on: March 11, 2014
Changes in human papillomavirus typing of recurrent respiratory papillomatosis progressing to malignant neoplasm
D J Doyle1, L A Henderson, F E LeJeune
1Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Tulane Medical School, New Orleans, La.
Abstract:
A patient with recurrent respiratory papillomatosis progressed spontaneously to carcinoma resulting in death. Serial biopsy specimens obtained during a 9-year course of this patient's disease were tested via polymerase-chain reaction and Southern hybridization to detect the human papillomavirus (HPV) types present during the patient's course of disease. Early biopsy specimens were positive for HPV types 6 and 11. As atypia progressed to carcinoma, HPV types 6 and 11 remained present, but the signal decreased and HPV 16 became increasingly positive. The significance of these findings will be discussed.
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