IS THERE CORRELATION BETWEEN HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS (HPV) AND ESOPHAGEAL EPIDERMOID CARCINOMA?
Luiz Filipe Alkamin WoellnerJuliano Smaniotto de MedeirosCarmen Australia Paredes Marcondes RibasPaulo Afonso Nunes NassifJurandir Marcondes Ribas-FilhoAna Cristina Lira SobralBruno Luiz AriedeDebora Azeredo Pacheco Dias DA CostaOsvaldo MalafaiaPublished in: Arquivos brasileiros de cirurgia digestiva : ABCD = Brazilian archives of digestive surgery (2021)
The prevalence of HPV infection is high in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma presenting in almost half of the cases (46.55%), without gender differentiation.