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Case Reports
. 2014 Jan;5(1):66-8.
doi: 10.4103/2229-5178.126037.

Disseminated extragenital bullous lichen sclerosus

Tu-Van T Trinh  1 , Karina Parr  1 , David F Butler  1
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Disseminated extragenital bullous lichen sclerosus

Tu-Van T Trinh et al. Indian Dermatol Online J. 2014 Jan.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Acitretin; bullous; calcitriol; disseminated; lichen sclerosis et atrophicus; non-genital; painful.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest: None declared

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Figure 1
Hemorrhagic bullae within pre-existing atrophic lesions involving her abdomen
Figure 2
Figure 2
Punch biopsy of the left flank showing thinning of the epidermis with compact hyperkeratosis, degeneration of the basal layer, edema with the early stages of a subepidermal blister, and a band of homogenized collagen in the dermis (H and E, ×100)
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