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What Lichen sclerosus is?
Lichen sclerosus is a skin condition.
Lichen sclerosus is a chronic inflammatory skin condition which results in white plaques with epidermal atrophy and scarring.
Which age group is more affected due to lichen sclerosus?
Mainly the females are more affected than males.
lichen sclerosus is very rarely seen in the children.
What are the causes of lichen sclerosus?
• History of the patient.
• Family history of the patient.
• Infections
• Environmental factors
• Hormonal disturbances
• Local irritation of the skin.
• The trauma of the skin.
What are the sign and symptoms of lichen sclerosus?
Lichen sclerosus begins as white, polygonal papules that join into plaques.
The white color of the skin.
In the case of female genital:
The lesions may be confined to the labia majora but usually, involve and eventually obliterate the labia minora.
In the case of male genital:
The lesions usually are confined to the glans penis. and the prepuce or foreskin remnants.
How to investigate lichen sclerosus?
• Skin biopsy.
• Antinuclear antibody
• Vitamin B-12 levels
• Thyroid function tests
How to treat lichen sclerosus?
Topical corticosteroids may help to treat symptoms of the external skin.
Areas of vulvar lichen sclerosus are surgically excised or ablated with a laser as a prophylactic measure.
Circumcision may benefit male lichen sclerosus and the phimosis that may accompany it.
Medications to be given are as follows: –
• Topical testosterone
• Corticosteroids
• Retinoid-like agents
• Topical skin medications
What are the complications of lichen sclerosus?
In male genitalia complications are as follows: –
• Painful erections
• Urinary obstruction
• Inability to retract the foreskin
In females complications occur are as follows: –
• Dyspareunia
• Urinary obstruction
•Secondary infection from chronic ulceration
• Squamous cell carcinoma
What is the differential diagnosis of lichen sclerosus?
• Albinism
• Anetoderma
• Atrophoderma of Pasini and Pierini
• Balanitis circumscripta plasmacellularis
• Balanitis xerotica obliterans
• Bowen disease
• Graft versus host disease
• Idiopathic guttate hypomelanosis
• Leukoplakia oral
• Morphea
• Tinea versicolor
• Vitiligo
• Squamous cell carcinoma
For more information, you can visit WebMD and MayoClinic.
