We encountered an elderly married couple with concurrent vulvar and penile carcinoma with an Asian variant of human papillomavirus type 16.
Asian variants might have an elevated risk of concurrent external genital carcinomas of a male and a female, and analysis of human papillomavirus variants might be important to understand the mechanism of carcinogenesis.
Written by:
Mitamura T, Watari H, Yamashiro K, Kato T, Hosaka M, Shimada C, Fukumoto S, Noshiro K, Sasaki T, Sakuragi N. Are you the author?
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan; Division of Pathology, Hokkaido Cancer Center, Shiroishi-ku, Sapporo, Japan; Department of Gynecology, Hokkaido Cancer Society, Higashi-ku, Sapporo, Japan.
Reference: Sex Transm Dis. 2015 Jun;42(6):342-3.
doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000274
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 25970313