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D. Murray Angevine, MD; Diane H. Norback, MD, PhD; Richard K. Dortzbach, MD
University of Wisconsin Medical School William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital Madison, Wis

JAMA. 1981;246(10):1087-1088.

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To the Editor.—

Approximately 25 years ago a small sessile papilloma measuring 2 mm across was observed on the margin of the left lower eyelid of one of us (D. M. A.). Because of its small size and lack of symptoms it was not treated. During the past year there was a slight increase in size (5x4 mm), and because of slight irritation it was excised on Oct 1, 1980 (R. K. D.). As anticipated it proved to be an epithelial papilloma with superficial keratinization.

At about this time a report appeared in the section FROM THE NIH in JAMA (1980;244:2041) that described the development of a technique indicating that variants of the wart virus cause many kinds of human cutaneous and mucosal papillomas. Because the papilloma virus family shares a common antigen(s), it was possible to prepare antisera that reacted with all human and animal papillomas that had been . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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