A VIRAL CONJUNCTIVAL RASPBERRY TUMOR

We describe the clinical and histopathological findings of a conjuncti val papilloma due to papillomavirus. The therapeutic method applied wa s excision plus cryotherapy. These lesions are known to recur, and pap illomavirus DNA sequences are present in several cases of conjunctival dysplasia and carcinoma. Using biological molecular methods (in situ hybridization, Southern blot hybridization, and particularly polymeras e chain reaction), more than 60 Human Papillomavirus have currently be en reported. This new detection techniques improve the possibility of findings HPV infection, and increase the interest for this virus extre mely widely distributed in man.