Case 142. HPV-6 infection (condyloma acuminatum) (22 y-o F)

       
  Cervical smear and biopsy from a sexually active woman with polypoid lesions in the uterine cervix  
       

 

  Consecutive sectioning discloses that HPV antigen-positive nuclei are much less than the HPV 6/11 genome-positive nuclei (immunostaining using a rabbit antiserum to common capsid antigen).