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. 2022 Jan-Jun;43(1):102-103.
doi: 10.4103/ijstd.ijstd_6_22. Epub 2022 Jun 7.

Penile lichen planus mimicking psoriasis clinically and delineating two different patterns on histopathology

Nitin Krishna Patil  1 , Aditya Kumar Bubna  1
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Penile lichen planus mimicking psoriasis clinically and delineating two different patterns on histopathology

Nitin Krishna Patil et al. Indian J Sex Transm Dis AIDS. 2022 Jan-Jun.
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(a) Two annular and scaly psoriasiform plaques identified on the glans penis with an irregular, well-demarcated, keratotic, and scaly plaque involving the penile shaft, (b) epidermis demonstrating orthokeratosis, wedge-shaped hypergranulosis, irregular acanthosis, and a moderately dense lymphocytic superficial dermal infiltrate along with pigment incontinence (H and E, ×10), (c) saw toothing of rete ridges, doming of dermal papilla, and vacuolar degeneration of the basal cell layer can be identified in the epidermis. Pigment incontinence and a moderately dense lymphocytic infiltrate can be observed in the dermis (H and E, ×20), (d) epidermis demonstrating prominent orthohyperkeratosis and psoriasiform elongation of rete ridges. Dermal inflammatory lymphocytic infiltrate is rather sparse along with pigment incontinence (H and E, ×10), (e) liquefactive degeneration of the basal cell layer is confined to the rete tips, and dermal findings include pigment incontinence and a sparse lymphocytic infiltrate (H and E, ×20)
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