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Lichen sclerosus

The Lancet, 1999
Lichen sclerosis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease that causes substantial discomfort and morbidity, most commonly in adult women, but also in men and children. Any skin site may be affected (and, rarely, the oral mucosa) but lichen sclerosus is most common in the anogenital area, where it causes intractable itching and soreness.
Powell, J, Wojnarowska, F
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Disseminated extragenital bullous lichen sclerosus

Indian Dermatology Online Journal, 2014
Lichen sclerosus commonly affects the genitalia of post-menopausal women. We describe a woman with painful, disseminated, bullous, extragenital lichen sclerosus that responded to oral acitretin and topical calcitriol and triamcinolone.
Tu-Van T Trinh, Karina Parr, David F Butler   +2 more
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Lichen sclerosus of the eyelid involving the eyelash margin

Skin Health and Disease
Lichen sclerosus is a debilitating and chronic disease that typically affects the anogenital area, although it can also be found on extragenital locations such as the shoulders, neck, trunk, breasts, and arms.
Tiffany Ho, Susana Ortiz Urda, Ryan S. Berry   +2 more
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Acral Folliculocentric Extragenital Lichen Sclerosus: A Case Report [PDF]

Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology
Khalid M Al-Husain,1 Abdulaziz Madani,2 Ahmed Alhumidi,3 Turky Alsehli,2 Khalid Nabil Nagshabandi2 1Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia; 2Department of Dermatology, College of ...
Al-Husain KM, Madani A, Alhumidi A, Alsehli T, Nagshabandi KN   +4 more
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Recent advances in understanding urethral lichen sclerosus [version 1; referees: 3 approved] [PDF]

F1000Research, 2016
Lichen sclerosus affecting the male genitalia is a poorly understood but potentially devastating condition. The natural history of the condition is beginning to be understood better with longer follow-up of patients.
Altaf Mangera, Nadir Osman, Christopher Chapple   +2 more
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Vulvodynia, Genital Eczema and Lichen Sclerosus: What are the Successful Treatments from a Patient’s Perspective?

International Journal of Women's Health
Vera Christina Berger,1,2 Ronja Fierz,2 Isabel Kolm,3 Brigitte Leeners,2,4 Cornelia Betschart1,2 1Department of Gynecology, University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; 2Medical School, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; 3Department of ...
Berger VC, Fierz R, Kolm I, Leeners B, Betschart C   +4 more
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Development of antigen-specific ELISA for circulating autoantibodies to extracellular matrix protein 1 in lichen sclerosus [PDF]

, 2004
Lichen sclerosus is a common, acquired chronic inflammatory skin disease of unknown etiology, although circulating autoantibodies to the glycoprotein extracellular matrix protein 1 (ECM1) have been detected in most patients’ sera.
Sallie M. Neill, Hughes, GJ, Ien Chan, Andrew P. South, Black, Martin M., Oyama, N, McGrath, John A., McGrath, J A, Kawakami, Y, Fenella Wojnarowska, John A. McGrath, Mepani, K, Balbir S. Bhogal, South, AP, South, A P, Chan, Ien, Kaneko, F, Kawakami, Yoshio, Chan, I, Kirti Mepani, South, Andrew P., Bhogal, BS, Neill, Sallie M., Oyama, Noritaka, Bhogal, B S, Noritaka Oyama, Bhogal, Balbir S., David D’Cruz, Neill, SM, Mepani, Kirti, McGrath, JA, Fumio Kaneko, Kaneko, Fumio, D'Cruz, David, Hughes, G J, D'Cruz, D, Martin M. Black, Graham J. Hughes, Neill, S M, Hughes, Graham J., Yoshio Kawakami, Wojnarowska, F, Black, MM, Black, M M, Wojnarowska, Fenella   +44 more
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PLATELET-RICH PLASMA AS A NOVEL TREATMENT FOR LICHEN SCLEROSUS VULVAE: A CASE REPORT

Archives of the Balkan Medical Union, 2022
Introduction. Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is a novel treatment of lichen sclerosus vulvae. Case presentation. We describe a case of lichen sclerosus vulvae in a 25-year-old woman treated with PRP.
PLATELET-RICH PLASMA AS A NOVEL TREATMENT FOR LICHEN SCLEROSUS VULVAE: A CASE REPORT
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Is urinary incontinence associated with lichen sclerosus in females? A systematic review and meta‐analysis [PDF]

, 2021
Background Lichen sclerosus (LS) is a scarring chronic inflammatory disease with a predilection for genital skin in both sexes. The aetiology of LS is controversial, but evidence increasingly suggests that the occluded exposure of susceptible epithelium ...
Owen, C, Simpson, R, I. Kreuser‐Genis, Gran, S., Kirby, L, Kirby, L., L. Kirby, Gran, S, R. Simpson, Kreuser‐Genis, I., Simpson, R., Kreuser-Genis, I, Owen, C., C. Owen, S. Gran   +14 more
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Zoon Balanitis and Lichen Sclerosus: An Uncommon Association

Revista da Sociedade Portuguesa de Dermatologia e Venereologia, 2021
Zoon balanitis and lichen sclerosus are both chronic inflammatory disorders of the genital mucosa that usually affect middle-aged or elderly uncircumcised men.
Pedro Miguel Garrido, Marta Aguado-Lobo, Luís Soares de Almeida, João Borges da Costa   +3 more
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