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Liquen plano

Última revisión: 22 Jul 2025
Última actualización: 20 Dec 2024

Resumen

Definición

Anamnesis y examen

Principales factores de diagnóstico

  • prurito
  • placas o pápulas violáceas de aspecto plano en la parte superior
  • estrías de Wickham
  • erosiones mucosales y red blanca en encaje
  • alopecia cicatricial
  • afectación de las uñas
Todos los datos

Otros factores de diagnóstico

  • pterigión dorsal
  • antecedentes de hepatitis C (VHC)
Todos los datos

Factores de riesgo

  • hepatitis C (en algunas poblaciones de pacientes)
  • polimorfismo -308 G/A en el gen de factor de necrosis tumoral (TNF) alfa
  • vacunación contra la hepatitis B
  • vacunación contra la gripe
  • vacunación contra la enfermedad por coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19)
  • estrés psicosocial
  • alérgenos orales
  • uso de determinados fármacos
Todos los datos

Pruebas diagnósticas

Primeras pruebas diagnósticas para solicitar

  • diagnóstico clínico
Todos los datos

Pruebas diagnósticas que deben considerarse

  • histopatología
  • cribado de hepatitis C (VHC)
  • inmunofluorescencia
Todos los datos

Algoritmo de tratamiento

Agudo

enfermedad cutánea

enfermedad en el cuero cabelludo

enfermedad de la cavidad oral

enfermedad genital

enfermedad ungueal

Colaboradores

Autores

Deepani Munidasa, MBBS, MD

Consultant Dermatologist

Department of Dermatology

Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital

Anuradhapura

Sri Lanka

Divulgaciones

DM declares that she has no competing interests.

Agradecimientos

Dr Deepani Munidasa would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Susan Cooper, Dr Rebecca Dunn, Dr Julia S. Lehman, Dr Megha M. Tollefson, and Dr Lawrence E. Gibson, previous contributors to this topic.

Divulgaciones

SC is chair of the British Society for the Study of Vulval Disease and receives royalties for contributions to UpToDate. RD, JSL, MMT, and LEG declare that they have no competing interests.

Revisores por pares

Brian Swick, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor

University of Iowa College of Medicine

Iowa City

IA

Divulgaciones

BS declares that he has no competing interests.

David Cassarino, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

University of California

Los Angeles

CA

Divulgaciones

DC declares that he has no competing interests.

Referências

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Principais artigos

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Practice bulletin no. 224: diagnosis and management of vulvar skin disorders. Jul 2020 [internet publication].Texto completo  Resumo

Edwards SK, Bates CM, Lewis F, et al. 2014 UK national guideline on the management of vulval conditions. Int J STD AIDS. 2015 Aug;26(9):611-24. Resumo

Ioannides D, Vakirlis E, Kemeny L, et al. European S1 guidelines on the management of lichen planus: a cooperation of the European Dermatology Forum with the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 2020 Jul;34(7):1403-14.Texto completo  Resumo

Artigos de referência

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  • Diretrizes

    • 2021 European guideline for the management of vulval conditions
    • British Association of Dermatologists and British Photodermatology Group guidelines for narrowband ultraviolet B phototherapy
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