The patient is an 83-year-old female with a 30-year history of intense pruritus which started on her legs and over the last year has spread to other scattered areas on the body. She has Type I skin ...

Dr. Margaret Cocks is a dermatologist and dermatopathologist who specializes in the diagnosis and management of vulvar dermatoses, including lichen sclerosus, lichen planus and lichen simplex ...

ONE of the tasks of modern dermatology is the critical evaluation of all empiric remedies, old and new, particularly when their use involves significant risk to the patient. It is only recently that ...

Lichenification refers to areas of hard, thickened skin. It generally results from continual rubbing or itching but may result from an underlying condition. There are two main types of lichenification ...

The patient was diagnosed with lichen simplex chronicus (LSC), a chronic, localized, dry plaque of lichenification (thickened skin with accentuation of the normal skin lines) arising secondary to ...

Nomenclature regarding the eczematous and lichenified diseases is particularly confusing and controversial. For this reason, our committee thought that it would be informative for users of the 2011 ...

The diagnosis was lichen simplex chronicus (LSC), a secondary reactive process that results from scratching or rubbing and manifests clinically as increased skin markings and thickness (a visual mimic ...

A 50-year-old male patient presented with hyperkeratotic nodules on both feet. He reported that the nodules had been slowly progressing for a number of years. The patient was a devout Muslim and ...

Lichen simplex chronicus (LSC) is also known as neurodermatitis. This term refers to a chronic itchy condition of the skin that appears to get worse with scratching. This scratching leads to the skin ...