Human Papillomavirus Infections in Nonmelanoma Skin Cancers From Renal Transplant Recipients and Nonimmunosuppressed Patients

Abstract

The presence of HPV DNA in a large percentage of specimens of nonmelanoma carcinomas of the skin from immunosuppressed patients, as well as from nonimmmunosuppressed patients, renders a papillomavirus infection as a possible factor in the etiology of this disease.