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Papillary hemangioma
Papillary hemangioma (papillary capillary hemangioma, ORPHA:673543) is a rare benign cutaneous vascular tumor of the head and neck with intraluminal papillary projections and hyaline globules; it harbors GNAQ/GNA11 Q209L mutations and must be distinguished from glomeruloid hemangioma of POEMS syndrome.
Papillary intralymphatic angioendothelioma
Papillary intralymphatic angioendothelioma (PILA, Dabska tumor), a rare low-grade lymphatic vascular tumor of skin and subcutis in children and young adults, first described 1969, treated by wide excision, rarely metastasizing.
Papillary renal cell carcinoma
Papillary renal cell carcinoma, also called PRCC, is a kidney cancer arising in the lining of the kidney's tubules, the second-most common form of renal cell carcinoma.
Papillary thyroid cancer
Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), the most common thyroid cancer, arises from thyroid follicular cells, grows slowly, affects women more, often before age 45; driven by BRAF V600E and RET fusions, with active surveillance an option for low-risk tumors.
Papillary tumor of the pineal region
Papillary tumor of the pineal region (PTPR), a rare WHO grade 2-3 neuroepithelial tumor near the pineal gland, first described 2003, arising from subcommissural organ ependymal cells, with high local recurrence and 73% 5-year survival.
Papilledema
Papilledema is optic disc swelling caused by elevated intracranial pressure, usually bilateral. Most common cause is idiopathic intracranial hypertension; diagnosed with MRI/MRV, lumbar puncture, and OCT; treated with acetazolamide, weight loss, or shunting.
Papilloedema
Papilloedema (papilledema) is optic disc swelling from raised intracranial pressure, most often idiopathic intracranial hypertension; almost always bilateral, an emergency requiring neuroimaging, and detectable on fundus photos by AI with ~95% sensitivity.
Papilloma
Papilloma: a benign epithelial tumor, usually exophytic; also called condyloma when HPV-caused on genitals. Covers squamous papillomas, warts, and HPV-independent forms like intraductal papilloma.
Papillomatosis
Papillomatosis (in crocodiles), or crocodile pox, is a poxvirus skin disease of farmed crocodilians, mainly hatchlings under two years, causing papular lesions that downgrade hides; non-WOAH-listed, reported voluntarily.
Papillomaviridae
Papillomaviridae (HPV family): small non-enveloped dsDNA viruses, 5,748–8,607 bp circular genomes, 53 genera, 133 species, infecting epithelia of mammals, birds, reptiles, fish; E6/E7 oncogenes, cervical and other cancers, L1-based vaccines.
Papillomavirus E7
Papillomavirus E7, the HPV oncoprotein that degrades pRb via cullin 2 to force S-phase entry; with E6 (p53) it drives HPV16/18 cervical and oropharyngeal cancers and is the main target of therapeutic vaccines and TCR-T therapy.
Papillon (1973 film)
Papillon (1973) is Franklin J. Schaffner's prison drama starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman, adapted from Henri Charrière's memoir of the French Guiana penal colony; a box-office hit with an Oscar-nominated Jerry Goldsmith score.
Papillon (2017 film)
Papillon (2017) is Michael Noer's remake of the 1973 prison drama, starring Charlie Hunnam as Henri Charrière and Rami Malek as Louis Dega, based on Charrière's memoirs; released by Bleecker Street in 2018, it grossed $2.3 million in the US.
Papillon (book)
Papillon is Henri Charrière's 1969 Robert Laffont autobiographical narrative of imprisonment in the French Guiana penal colony and repeated escapes; a bestseller in over 20 languages, twice filmed, with disputed truth claims.
Papillon dog
Papillon (Continental Toy Spaniel, Phalene for the drop-eared variety): a toy dog breed named after French for butterfly, with 8-11 inch height, 14-16 year lifespan, 16th-century European royal-court history, and top agility and obedience performance among toy breeds.
Papio anubis
Papio anubis, the olive or Anubis baboon, is a widespread African baboon of the genus Papio, ranging from Mali to Kenya across 25 countries, living in multimale troops of 15 to 150 and known for crop raiding and use as a biomedical research model.
Papio cynocephalus
Papio cynocephalus, the yellow baboon (Linnaeus, 1766), is an East African baboon of the genus Papio, ranging from Ethiopia to Zambia, IUCN Least Concern, with two subspecies and hybrid zones with olive baboons.
Papio papio
Papio papio, the Guinea baboon, is a West African baboon species from Mauritania to Sierra Leone, the westernmost Papio, with a multi-level one-male-unit society, Near Threatened IUCN status, and 13-26 kg body weight.
Papio ursinus
Papio ursinus, the chacma baboon, is a large southern African baboon with three subspecies (ursinus, griseipes, ruacana). Least Concern overall, omnivorous, female-bonded troops, but heavily affected by human-wildlife conflict and pine plantation bark stripping.
Papirüs
Papirüs was a Turkish monthly literary magazine published between 1960 and 1981 by the poet Cemal Süreya, a leading figure of the İkinci Yeni movement.
Papiss Cissé
Papiss Demba Cissé (born 1985, Dakar) is a Senegalese retired striker; Freiburg's 22-goal 2010-11 scorer, Newcastle United's number 9 with 37 Premier League goals, later Shandong Luneng, Alanyaspor, Fenerbahçe and Amiens.
Papo MC
Papo MC is the stage name of Alejandro Andrés Lococo, an Argentine freestyle rapper born in Mar del Plata in 1991, known as La Bestia del Hardcore.
Papon
Papon is a French surname, most prominently borne by Maurice Papon (1910–2007), a civil servant and politician convicted in 1998 for deporting Jews from Bordeaux during the German occupation.
Papoose (rapper)
Papoose (Shamele Mackie, born 1978) is a Brooklyn rapper known for mixtapes, "Alphabetical Slaughter," a 2006 Jive deal that produced nothing, the 2013 debut The Nacirema Dream, and 12 monthly EPs in 2021.
Papoura Hill Circular Structure
The Papoura Hill Circular Structure is a monumental Bronze Age complex of eight concentric stone rings on Papoura Hill near Kastelli, Crete, unearthed in 2024 during airport radar work.
Pappa ante Portas
Pappa ante Portas is a 1991 German comedy film written and directed by Loriot, who plays a department director pushed into early retirement alongside Evelyn Hamann.
Pappogeomys
Pappogeomys (Merriam, 1895), Mexican pocket gophers or tuzas, is a monotypic geomyid rodent genus holding only Buller's pocket gopher, P. bulleri, endemic to west-central Mexico; sister to Cratogeomys.
Pappsatt
Pappsatt is a 2010 German children's board game by Selecta Spielzeug, designed by Christine Basler and Alix-Kis Bouguerra, in which 2 to 4 players aged 4 up feed zoo animals using dice movement and a memory mechanic; it made the Kinderspiel des Jahres 2011 recommended list.
Pappu (पप्पु)
Pappu (पप्पू) is a Hindi-Urdu pet name for a small boy, also a given name and surname, which since about 2013 has served in Indian politics as a pejorative nickname for Rahul Gandhi and other rivals.
Pappu Yadav (राजेश रंजन)
Pappu Yadav (Rajesh Ranjan, राजेश रंजन), Bihar politician and Independent MP for Purnia since 2024 with 47.46% of the vote; six-time Lok Sabha member, ex-RJD Madhepura MP, JAP founder later merged into Congress.