Aggressive Conjunctival Squamous Cell Carcinoma in Three Young Africans
- 1 February 1996
- journal article
- case report
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Ophthalmology (1950)
- Vol. 114 (2) , 215-218
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archopht.1996.01100130209021
Abstract
P olymerase chain reaction was used to test for the presence of human papillomavirus in conjunctival squamous cell carcinomas from three young Africans with aggressive disease. Two of these patients had the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Test results for human papillomavirus were positive in all three cases.Keywords
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