Abstract:ObjectiveTo detect the distribution of human papilloma virus (HPV) infection in patients with squamous cell carcinoma arising from sinonasal inverted papilloma (IP/SCC), and to analyze the relationship between the prognosis and HPV infection.Methods55 patients with IP/SCC who met the enrollment criteria during the period from Jan.1997 to Dec.2009 were reviewed retrospectively. A “sandwich” technique was used to cut paraffin sections for hematoxylin and eosin (HE) staining and HPVDNA analysis. Overall survival (OS) and disease specific survival (DSS) for HPVpositive and HPVnegative patients were estimated by KaplanMeier analysis. Univariate and multivariate regression analyses were performed using Logrank and Cox regression model respectively. Counting data were compared via Chisquare test.ResultsHPV infection was detected in 11 specimens with an infection rate of 20%(11/55). As for the HPV subtype, the case number of HPV16 infection was 5(45.5%,5/11), HPV6 was 3(27.3%,3/11),and one(9.1%,1/11) in each of HPV39,HPV18/39 and HPV33/52/54. The 5year OS rate was 35.6%, while those of HPVpositive and HPVnegative patients were 18.7% and 38.9%. The 5year DSS rate was 35.6%, while those of HPVpositive and HPVnegative patients were 18.7% and 49.2%. Both differences of OS rate and DSS rate between HPVpositive patients and HPVnegative patients were statistically insignificant (P=0.915, P=0.773). Cox regression model analysis showed that HPV infection had no influence on OS rate and DSS rate (P=0.553,P=0.976).ConclusionWith an infection rate of 20% in IP/SCC patients, HPV has no impact on the prognosis of IP/SCC.