Author:
Peres Luiz Cesar,Barbieri Neto José,Rossi Marcos Antonio,Moriel Antonio Roberto,Bacchi Carlos Eduardo
Abstract
Herpes Simplex virus (HSV) type I is a common infectious agent of nongenital areas and has been diagnosed most frequently in esophagitis even in otherwise healthy subjects. Although some mild cellular alterations are commonly seen in this disease they can hardly be so intense as to simulate a carcinoma in situ of squamous epithelium. We report such a case and call attention to the possibility of an overdiagnosis of cancer. Some observations in literature relating HSV infection. to cancer are also made.
Publisher
Revista Brasileira De Cancerologia (RBC)
Reference14 articles.
1. Caron GA- Carcinoma at the site of herpes simplex infection letter) J Am Med Assoc, 1980: 243: 2396.
2. Depew WT, Prentice RSA, Beck JT, Blakeman JM, Da Costa LR – Herpes simplex ulcerative esophagitis in a healthy subjects. Am J Gastroenterol 1977 68 381-385.
3. Deshmuck M, Shah R, MeCalIum R - Experience with herpes esophagitis in otherwise healthy patients. Am J Gastroenterol, 1984: 76: 173-176.
4. Gecht ML – Carcinoma at the site of herpes simplex infection detterl.J Am Med Assoc, 1980: 244: 1675.
5. Kessier II, Kulcar Z, Zimolo A, Grgwevic M, Strand M, Goodwin BJ – Cervical cancer in Yugoslavia II. Epidemiologic factors of possible etidogy significance. J Nat Cancer Inst, 1974: 53: 51-60.