ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND Lichen Planus (LP) is a pruritic, inflammatory disease of the skin, mucous membranes, and hair follicles. It occurs throughout the world, in all races. Cutaneous LP has a worldwide distribution with its incidence varying from 0.22%to 1% depending upon geographic location. The aim was to study the clinical types of lichen planus in patients attending Al-Kindy Teaching Hospital in Baghdad. METHODS This study was done in the Department of Dermatology and Venereology in Al- Kindy Teaching Hospital during the period from November2016 to November 2018. A total of 120 patients of lichen planus their ages ranged between five years and sixty seven years with median of (38) years. The patients were examined fully and diagnosed as lichen planus depending on a clinical and histopathological study, and all cases were photographed using a digital camera (SONY DSC-T700 10.1 Megapixels). RESULT Through studying (120) patients with LP,70 patients (58.3%) show classical LP ,16 patients (13.3%) with hypertrophic type of LP, while LP pigmentosus was seen in 10 patients (8.3%), lichenoid drug eruption (LDE) was seen in 6 patients (5%), were as lichen planopilaris (LPP) alone disease was seen in 6 patients( 5%), mucous membrane(MM) lesion alone was seen in 4 patients (3.3%,) Actinic LP seen in 4 (3.3%), Annular type was seen in 2 male patients (1.6%) and finally twenty nail dystrophy was seen in 2 patients only (1.6%). CONCLUSION The commonest type of lichen planus that has been observed in patients included in this study was the classical type followed by hypertrophic and pigmentosus type. Keywords: Lichen Planus, Classical, Hypertrophic, Pigmentosus

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2019/8.3.4653