Wendoline Rojo Contreras, Héctor Montoya Fuentes, Jorge I Gámez Nava, Angel E Suárez Rincón, Jesús Vázquez Salcedo, Miguel Padilla Rosas, Luz M Baltazar Rodríguez, Xochitl Trujillo, Mario Ramírez Flores, Benjamín Trujillo Hernández, Laura González López
BACKGROUND: Nevertheless its association with cervicouterine cancer, there is no information about cervical human papillomavirus infection prevalence in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate human papillomavirus infection prevalence through molecular biology tests, and to analyze this infection related factors in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. MATERIAL AND METHOD: Analytic, transversal study to 250 patients: 61 women with rheumatoid arthritis selected from a rheumatologic external consult of a second level hospital, and 189 healthy women, with cervical cytology, of a first level hospital...
January 2008: Ginecología y Obstetricia de México