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| Title: | Prevalence of high risk human papilloma virus in patients with oesophagael squamous cell carcinima as seen at the Department of Pathology, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Uganda |
| Authors: | Ndiwalana, Bernard |
| Keywords: | Human papiloma virus
Oesophagaewl squamous cell carcinoma
Prevalence
Cancer |
| Issue Date: | Jul-2009 |
| Abstract: | ... prevalence of high risk HPV in patients with OSCC. The study revealed a HPV prevalence of high risk HPV of 6.1%. All patients with high risk HPV were ≥ 50 years and all the tumours with high risk HPV serotypes were confined to the mid and lower third of the oesophagus. It was difficult to assess whether there was statistically significant difference in the mean age of patients with high risk HPV as compared to those without high risk HPV because of the small number of patients with high risk NTV. The mean age of patients with high risk HPV was higher than that of patients without high risk HPV. There was no scientific explanation for this finding (probably occurred by chance). We could not satisfactorily correlate a relationship between tumour differentiation and presence of high risk HPV because of the small number of patients with high risk HPV.
Conclusion
The prevalence of high risk HPV in OSCC was found to be 6.1%. It was statistically difficult to assess the whether there was significant difference in expression of high risk HPV in relation to age, gender and tumour differentiation because of the small number of patients with high risk HPV. |
| Description: | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of Master of Medicine in Pathology Degree of Makerere University. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/958 |
| Appears in Collections: | Theses & Dissertations (Health-Sciences)
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