The patients selected had surgical resection of anal and perianal warts between 1/1/2016 and 1/1/2021 (60 months) in the 3rd Surgical Department of University General Hospital of Thessaloniki AHEPA, by a single surgical team. Patient data were collected using the histopathological reports of the specimens resected, which were acquired from the Histopathology Laboratory of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, along with the patient records from the 3rd Surgical Department’s archive. Inclusion criteria included excision of anal and perianal lesions and exclusion criteria included final histopathological results of CA with high grade, mild-moderate dysplasia, and SCC.
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