Dermatology - SCALP: lichen planus  - lichen planopilaris
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Image Name: Lichen_3_020319   File Type: jpg
Diagnosis: LICHEN PLANUS / LICHEN PLANOPILARIS
GRAHAM-LITTLE SYNDROME / KERATOSIS PILARIS
  Category: hair disorders /
atrophy /
papulosquamous eruptions
Morphology: papulosquamous (bump, scale)   Organization: follicular
Pattern: generalized, disseminated / symmetric   Color: red
Body Site: scalp / neck   Age: 55 years
Gender:    Image Year: 2000
Contributor: Camillo Di Cicco, MD,PhD   First  Published: March 20, 2002
Description:A rare case where are associated "Cicatricial alopecia and lichen planus follicularis". This particularly disease is named LASSUEUR PICCARDI GRAHAM LITTLE Syndrome.
Comments:This is a rare case of Graham-Little syndrome in which cicatricial (scarring) alopecia of the scalp is associated with widepsread keratosis pilaris particularly in the axillae and pubic area where scarring does not usually occur. The scarring in the scalp may be clinically indistinguishable from the end stage of other forms of scarring hair loss.
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