High-risk human papillomavirus in patients with oral leukoplakia and oral squamous cell carcinoma-A multi-centre study in Sweden, Brazil and Romania.
Jonas SundbergJenny ÖhmanMagdalena KorytowskaMats WallströmGöran KjellerMaria AnderssonPeter HoralMagnus LindhDaniel GiglioAnikó KovácsLars SandJan-Michaél HirschLais Magda Araújo FerraciniAna Carolina Mamana Fernandes de SouzaIoanina ParlatescuMaria DobreMihail-Eugen HinescuPaulo Henrique Braz-SilvaSerban TovaruBengt HasseusPublished in: Oral diseases (2020)
In summary, the prevalence of HR-HPV in OL is low in all the tested countries, and the incidence has not changed over time. HR-HPV in OL does not seem to be a driver of oncogenesis.