TY  - JOUR
T1  - HIv infection and esophageal cancer—reply
AU  - Pantanowitz L, Bower M, Krown SE, Stebbing J
Y1  - 2010/05/24
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.114
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 916
EP  - 917
VL  - 170
IS  - 10
N2  - 
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.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.114
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2010.114
ER  -