The treatment for Lichen Simplex Chronicus of scalp resolves the itching and lesions completely. However, the lesions may leave a scar or some mild damaging. Relapse can occur when itching is aggravated due to heat, humidity, skin irritants or allergens. Relapse is more common in patients with...
Scalp dysesthesia and lichen simplex chronicus, conditions that can be associated, are both challenging and frustrating for the patient and the physician. The etiology is not well elucidated and treatment options are limited. Pathogenetic factors, diagnostic methods and therapeutic options in the ...
(macrophages containing phagocytosed melanin). Step sections may be required to reach a final diagnosis because of the patchy nature of the changes and the superimposed secondary changes like lichen simplex chronicus and infections. Additional biopsies with multiple steps may be needed in the erosive...
Treatment of Lichen Planus The skin lesions can resolve within months while the mouth lesions may take several years. About half of all cases of cutaneous (skin) lichen planus will resolve within 6 months and approximately 85% resolve within 18 months. Oral (mouth) lesions may take up to 5 ...
erythema dyschromicum perstans, psoriasis, secondary syphilis, pityriasis rosea, lichen nitidus, graft-versus-host disease, and keratosis lichenoides chronica. Hypertrophic lichen planus can appear very similar to lichen simplex chronicus. Vulvar lichen planus can be difficult to distinguish from lichen ...
Topics discussed include correlation of the condition lichen simplex chronicus (LSC) on the scalp with hair conditions like broom fibres, gear wheels and hamburgers, recognition of broom hair fibres on dermatoscopy and hamburger sign helping in diagnosis of LSC....
The papular form of LP may be confused with psoriasis and popular eczema although the epidermal changes are quite different. Hypertrophic LP can be distinguished from psoriasis, stasis dermatitis and lichen simplex chronicus, through verrucous changes. Scarring alopecia is differentiated from discoid lupu...
Lichen simplex chronicus is a skin disease that mostly affects female patients, with a peak incidence between ages 35 and 50 years. On the scalp, it appears as a single or multiple oval lesions, showing scaling and hair shaft loss or breakage. An important dermoscopic feature of the disease ...
Lichen simplex chronicus on the scalp: exuberant clinical, dermoscopic, and histopathological findingsDermoscopy, Lichen, Scalp, Scalp dermatosesExposing wet hair to high temperatures can create gas bubbles within the hair shaft, leading to brittle, dry hairs in a disorder known as bubble hair ...
Trichoscopic Diagnosis and Management of a Case of Scalp Dysesthesia with Lichen Simplex Chronicusdoi:10.4103/ijt.ijt_27_22SCALPDIAGNOSISEARLY diagnosisTREATMENT effectivenessITCHINGScalp dysesthesia (SD), a variant of cutaneous dysesthesia syndrome is an underrecognized cause of sca...