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Published in final edited form as: Histopathology. 2016 Aug 23;69(6):921–929. doi: 10.1111/his.13027

Table 3.

Reported frequency of HPV in salivary gland epithelial neoplasms in English literature

Ref. Tumor tested (N) HPV detection
methods
primers/probe)
HPV
N (%)
HR-
HPV N
(%)
HPV16
N (%)
HPV18
N (%)
Atula, 1998
[7]
N = 34
PA (19)
ACC (4)
SCC (3)
MEC (3)
Adenocarcinoma (2)
AdCC (1)
EMC (1)
MC (1)
PCR (GP5+/GP6+) 0 N/A N/A N/A
Fischer, 2003
[8]
SCC of parotid (1) Nested PCR
(customized primers)
1
(100%)
N/A N/A N/A
Vageli, 2007
[9]
N = 8
Oncocytoma (1)
ACC (1)
Warthin’s tumor (1)
Adenocarcinoma HG (1)
PA (2)
Lymphoepithelial cyst (1)
PLGA (1)
Solution PCR
(GP5+/GP6+)
Multiplex qRT-PCR
(E6/E7 of HPV16,
18, 31, 33, 35, 52, 58
and 67)
In situ PCR
6 (75%) 6
(75%)
5 (63%) 4 (50%)
Boland, 2012
[10]
AdCC (n = 25) ISH for LR- and HR-
HPV
2 (8%) 2 (8%) N/A N/A
Descamps,
2012 [11]
N = 79
PA (40)
AdCC (15)
MEC (9)
CAexPA (9)
ACC (6)
PCR (GP5+/GP6+)
qRT-PCR (type
specific sequences)
4 (5%)
PA (3)
ACC (1)
2 (3%)
PA (1)
ACC
(1)
2 (3%) 0
Isayeva,
2012 [12]
MEC (89) Nested RT-PCR
(primers N/A)
IF (C1P5 antibody)
N/A 42
(47%)
N/A N/A
Seethala
2012 [13]
Lymphadenoma (7) ISH (wide spectrum
HPV-DNA probe)
0 N/A N/A N/A
Teymoortash,
2013 [14]
Warthin’s tumor (40) ISH for HR-HPV
PCR (GP5+/GP6+
and E1 gene regions)
13
(33%)
episomal
by FISH
0 by
PCR
N/A N/A N/A
Teng, 2014
[15]
N = 59
PA (36)
Adenoma (3)
Warthin’s tumor (12)
Myoepithelioma (1)
Adenocarcinoma (3)
AdCC (1)
MEC (1)
Others (2)
PCR (37 LR and HR
HPV type-specific
probes)
34
(58%)
N/A 11
(19%)
14
(24%)

ACC: acinic cell carcinoma, AdCC: adenoid cystic carcinoma, CAexPA: carcinoma ex-pleomorphic adenoma, EMC: epithelial myoepithelial carcinoma, HPV: human papillomavirus, HR-HPV: high risk-human papillomavirus, IF: immunofluorescence, ISH: in situ hybridization, LR-HPV: low risk-human papillomavirus, MC: myoepithelial carcinoma, MEC: myoepithelial carcinoma, N/A: not available, PA: pleomorphic adenoma, PCR: polymerase chain reaction, PLGA: polymorphous low-grade adenocarcinoma, qRT-PCR: quantitative real-time PCR, Ref. References, RT-PCR: reverse transcriptase PCR, SCC: squamous cell carcinoma.