RT Journal
A1 Pantanowitz L, Bower M, Krown SE, Stebbing J
T1 HIv infection and esophageal cancer—reply
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2010
FD May 24
VO 170
IS 10
SP 916
OP 917
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.114
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2010.114
AB 
We thank Dr Rastegar for sharing this interesting case. Some cases of esophageal cancer in HIV-infected individuals may well be linked to HPV infection. We observed 1 HIV-infected individual who had an HPV-related condyloma of his esophagus (Figure), who was not included in our published series because we only included cases of invasive esophageal carcinoma. Others have reported similar individuals with HPV-related esophagitis.1 Recent published data support an association between high-risk HPV and esophageal carcinomas,2- 3 although causation is not established and is controversial.