Adjective modifier

• inverted: We present a patient who developed both these complications after biopsy of nasal polyps which subsequently proved to be an inverted papilloma.

• intraductal: To our knowledge, a malignant counterpart of intraductal papilloma has not been described previously.

• basal: This lesion is variously known a a seborrhoeic keratosis, basal cell papilloma or seborrhoeic wart.

Modifies a noun

• virus: Infection with the human papilloma virus is directly linked to cervical cancer, which kills 1300 British women a year.

• type: Indole-3-carbinol prevents cervical cancer in human papilloma virus type 16 ( HPV16 ) transgenic mice.

• DNA: Polymerase chain reaction analysis of the surgical margins of equine sarcoids for bovine papilloma virus DNA.

• infection: Human papilloma virus infections and skin cancer in renal allograft recipients.

Noun used with modifier

• cell: In rats, there was a small increase in the incidence of transitional cell papillomas in the urinary bladder and kidney.

• airway: Thirteen patients with airway papillomas were selected for study with polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) methods to detect viral DNA.