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. 2020 May 5;146(7):1677–1692. doi: 10.1007/s00432-020-03218-6

Table 8.

A review of the literature concerning HPV prevalence in Polish patients with squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck

Authors No. of specimens Tumour site Method/kit used for HPV detection HPV prevalence [%] Genotypes detecteda Active infection assessed (yes/no)
Szkaradkiewicz et al. (2002) 28 Oropharynx PCR-ELISA 10.7 No
Morshed (2010) 130 Larynx Immunohistochemistry 27.7 No
93 SPF-10 PCR and DNA enzyme immunoassay 35.5
Polz et al. (2010) 60 Oral cavity oropharynx INNO-LiPA HPV genotyping CE amp kit 25.0

HPV16 (87%)

not identified types (13%)

No
Snietura et al. (2011) 66 Oral cavity/ oropharynx Real time high risk HPV test for detection of 14 HPV types 6.9 (13.6% within oral cavity/ oropharynx and 0% within larynx) HPV16 (100%) No
65 Larynx
Golusinski et al. (2012) 50 Oral cavity oropharynx larynx p16 immunostaining and GP5 + /6 + PCR, followed by RLB hybridization 0.0 none Yes
Józefowicz-Korczyńska et al. (2014) 100 Larynx INNO-LiPA HPV genotyping extra assay 23.0

HPV18 (30%)

HPV16 (22%)

not identified types (48%)

No
Polz-Gruszka D. et al. (2015) 50 Larynx

INNO-LiPA

HPV genotyping extra assay

32.5 (26.7% within oropharynx and 36.0% within larynx)

HPV16 (69%)

HPV45, 59 and 68 (31%)

No
30 Oropharynx
Mazurek et al. (2016) 63 Oropharynx qPCR (assessment of HPV16 DNA in plasma and tumour samples)

38.0 in plasma samples

57.0 in tumour samples

only HPV16 was identifying No
Prawdzic Seńkowska et al. (2019) 47 Oral cavity

GenoFlow HPV

array test kit for detection of 33 HPV types

31.9

HPV16 (47%)

HPV 18 (7%)

HPV 43/44 (40%)

No

aIn brackets percentages per all detected HPV positive cases are presented