VIM and cervical carcinoma: Schäfer et al.37 have suggested that vimentin may act as a binding protein for HPV16 pseudovirion and modulate the internalization of HPV16 pseudovirion in cervix carcinoma cell lines; with the results being adverse compared with ours, both HPV-positive and HPV-negative tumor cells were negative for vimentin expression, and we found no relation between stromal vimentin expression and HPV status.