Case 142. HPV-6 infection (condyloma acuminatum) (22 y-o F)
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Case 142. HPV-6 infection (condyloma acuminatum) (22 y-o F) |
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| Cervical smear and biopsy from a sexually active woman with polypoid lesions in the uterine cervix | |||
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HPV, type 6/11 genome-reactive intranuclear particles measure about 20 nm, much smaller than mature HPV viral particles (50-60 nm). Together with the paucity of capsid antigen expression, it is likely that the viral genome is distributed as an episome (naked DNA) in the nucleus. | ||
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