Tracking down of laryngo-pharyngeal metastasis.
CONCLUSION: Our results sustain that the detection of HPV DNA in blood is a "surrogate marker" of metastasis when extension of metastasis cannot be estimated, this observation is very important for management of cancer patients with laryngopharyngeal localization.
PMID: 21434592 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Source: Roumanian Archives of Microbiology and Immunology - Category: Microbiology Tags: Roum Arch Microbiol Immunol Source Type: research
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