Lichen planus is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects the skin, mucous
membranes, nails and scalp. Esophageal lichen planus is a rarely reported
manifestation of lichen planus, presenting itself commonly in middle-aged women, with
symptoms such as dysphagia. We report a case of esophageal lichen planus in a
54-year-old woman associated with oral, cutaneous and ungual lichen planus. Although
lichen planus is a disorder well known by dermatologists, reports of esophageal
lichen planus are rare in dermatologic literature. The esophageal lichen planus is
little known and underdiagnosed, with a significant delay between the onset of
symptoms and diagnosis.
Among Brazilian patients with moderate-to-severe psoriasis, disease severity had far-reaching adverse impacts on lifestyle, comorbidities, HRQOL, and work productivity.
Pemphigus herpetiformis is an autoimmune bullous disease, that combines clinical
features of dermatitis herpetiformis and linear IgA bullous dermatosis and
immunological characteristics of pemphigus, which makes this disease peculiar
and this diagnosis rarely suspected in the first evaluation of the patient. The
reported case is of a patient with clinically bullous disease similar to
dermatitis herpetiformis, whose multiple biopsies were inconclusive, and only
after direct immunofluorescence with a pemphigus pattern (intraepidermal
intercellular pattern) the confirmation of the diagnosis was possible.
Primary cutaneous lymphomas have different clinical behavior and prognosis than
systemic lymphomas of similar histological subtype. About 30% of non-Hodgkin
lymphomas involve extranodal tissues, the skin being the second most affected body
organ after the gastrointestinal tract (approximately 18%). According to the EORTC
(European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer) classification, the
lymphoma centrofollicular is indolent, since the lesions increase in size slowly over
the years and spread to extracutaneous sites is uncommon. Based on this, radiotherapy
has been considered the treatment of choice by many studies. We present the case of a
patient who had cutaneous centrofollicular scalp lymphoma for 1 year and showed good
response to radiotherapy.
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