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Expression of p53 protein related to human papillomavirus and DNA ploidy in superficial esophageal carcinoma

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We examined the p53 protein and human papilloma virus (HPV) by immunohistochemistry and DNA ploidy by cytofluorometry in paraffin-embedded esophageal carcinoma tissue specimens. Sixty-one patients with superficial esophageal carcinoma were operated on between 1983 and 1991 without any prior treatment. Immunostaining of the anti-p53 protein antibody (CM1) was positive in 32 carcinomas (52%). Patients with p53-positive tumors had a poorer outcome than those with p53-negative tumors (P<0.05). In addition, patients with p53-positive tumors did not have any characteristic site of relapse. Only 5 of the 61 patients (8.2%) had HPV-positive tumors. One of these 5 carcinomas expressed both p53 protein and HPV. Three patients with HPV-positive tumors which had invaded the submucosal layer died of relapse. A determination of DNA ploidy revealed 30 patients with aneuploid tumors, 13 with polyploid tumors and 18 with diploid tumors. The outcome of the patients with aneuploid tumors was worse than that of the patients with diploid tumor (P<0.05). p53 protein expression was not associated with DNA ploidy; however, the 16 patients who had both p53-positive and aneuploid tumors had a worse prognosis than patients with p53-negative and aneuploid tumors (P<0.01). These findings suggest that p53 protein expression in conjunction with DNA ploidy may be a useful indicator in evaluating the prognosis of patients with superficial esophageal carcinoma.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Institute of Gastroenterology, Tokyo Women's Medical College, 8-1 Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, 162, Tokyo, Japan

    Tsutomu Nakamura, Hiroko Ide, Reiki Eguchi, Kazuhiko Hayashi & Fujio Hanyu

  2. Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Gastroenterology, Tokyo Women's Medical College, 8-1 Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, 162, Tokyo, Japan

    Kou Nagasako

  3. Second Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Kobe University, 7-5-1 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, 650, Kobe, Japan

    Masahiko Yukawa, Kazuyuki Asaka, Takahiro Fujimori & Sakan Maeda

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Nakamura, T., Ide, H., Eguchi, R. et al. Expression of p53 protein related to human papillomavirus and DNA ploidy in superficial esophageal carcinoma. Surg Today 25, 591–597 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00311431

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