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| Rombaldi,R.L.; Serafini,E.P.; Villa,L.L.; Vanni,A.C.; Baréa,F.; Frassini,R.; Xavier,M.; Paesi,S.. |
| Epidemiological studies show that human papillomaviruses (HPV) are strongly related to cervical cancer and cervical intraepithelial neoplasias (CIN). Unlike the case for women, there are no consistent data on the natural history of HPV in the male population even though these viruses are prevalent in males. We carried out a prospective study to assess the prevalence of HPV in males as well as the factors that determine such infections in 99 male sexual partners of women with CIN. The genitalia of the males were physically examined and subjected to peniscopy for the collection of scrapings which were subjected to the polymerase chain reaction and restriction fragment length polymorphism to detect HPV. Of the 99 males sampled, 54 (54.5%) were positive for... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia; Epidemiology; Human papillomaviruses; Polymerase chain reaction. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2006000200003 |
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| Godoy,A.E.G.; Mandelli,J.; Oliveira,F.H.; Calegari,S.; Moura,L.B.; Serafini,E.P.. |
| The purpose of the present study was to identify the expression of p16INK4 in cervical cancer precursor lesions by immunohistochemistry and to correlate it with lesion grade and presence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. Cervical specimens from 144 women seen consecutively at the gynecology outpatient clinic of our institution from December 2003 to May 2005 were analyzed by cytopathology, histopathology, polymerase chain reaction for HPV-DNA, and p16INK4 immunostaining. Histologically normal biopsies, HPV-DNA negative by polymerase chain reaction, were used as control. HPV-DNA prevalence, including the control group, was 68.1% and the prevalence of p16INK4 expression was 55.0%. The percentage of cells stained by p16INK4 ranged from 10 to 100%, both... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: P16INK4; Cervical cancer; Human papillomavirus; Immunohistochemistry. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2008000700006 |
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