HUMAN-PAPILLOMA VIRUS IN ORAL MUCOSA: AN OVERVIEW
Journal Title: Journal of Biological and Scientific Opinion - Year 2014, Vol 2, Issue 6
Abstract
Since 20 years there been an ever-increasing interest in human papillomaviruses HPV for the reason that of their impending character in the pathogenesis of malignant tumors. HPV was undeniably confirmed as an independent risk factor which leads to oral carcinoma. Up to now, totally more than 200 different strains and 170 types of HPV have been identified with their genomes and of them generally very less leads to the cancerous stage. As in HPV type 16 is the most prevalent type in oral carcinomas. The benign oral lesions, related with HPV infection, include Oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma, verrucca vulgaris and focal epithelial hyperplasia (FEH) and benign warts (genital, plantar and flat warts). These Oral benign HPV lesions are mostly asymptomatic as they may persist or regress spontaneously.
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Himanshu Thukral , Jayati Vohra , Aparna Sarkar
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