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Updated: Dec 16 2021

Lichen Planus

  • Snapshot
    • A 36-year-old woman presents to her primary care physician due to intense pruritic lesions affecting her ankles and wrists. She reports that this has never happened before. Medical history is significant for prior hospitalization for sepsis secondary to methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the setting of intravenous drug use. Her only medication is methadone and she does not have any allergies. On physical examination, there are polygonal violaceous papules affecting the ankles and volar surfaces of the wrists. Upon closer inspection of the lesions there are Wickham’s striae.
  • Epidemiology
    • Affects women > men
  • Differential
    • Psoriasis
    • Papular eczema
    • Discoid lupus (if scarring alopecia)
  • Complications
    • < 5% of cases of oral lesions progress to squamous cell carcinoma
  • Prognosis
    • Course is variable and unpredictable
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Dermatology | Lichen Planus
  • Dermatology
  • - Lichen Planus
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5/3/2023
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