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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I' m a 35yr old female. About a year ago, I was diagnosed with lichen simplex chronicus. Infact the disease has been with me for more than 20 years and no Doctor had ever told me the exact name of the ...