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ARTEAGA, Fanny; VELAZCO, Nelly; QUINONEZ, Belkis  e  CORREDOR, Ada. Verrugas vulgares bucales múltiples. Reporte de un caso.. Acta odontol. venez [online]. 2008, vol.46, n.1, pp.92-93. ISSN 0001-6365.

The human papilloma viruses with desoxyribonucleic acid genome which need a host cell for their reproduction and multiplication. The human papilloma virus infection has been associated to epithelium hyperplastic, papillomas and verrucous carcinoma lesions on the skin and differents kind of mucous. Including anogenital tract, uretra and tracheobronquial, nasal, lariyngeal and oral mucous. Currently, about 100 kinds of human papilloma viruses have been described. The common wart or verruca vulgaris are lesions of childhood caused by HPV 2, 4, and 40. These are benign, elevated, firm nodules with characteristic papillomatous surface projections. The most common site of occurrence is the finger. Oral lesions are relatively rare and are usually caused by auto inoculation from lesions on the fingers and hands. We here with report a case of oral verruca vulgaris that occurred in a middle-aged individual without any wart like lesions elsewhere in the body.

Palavras-chave : mucosa bucal; Virus; HPV; verruca vulgaris; oral mucous.