Oral Lichen Planus in a 7-year-old Child: A Rare Case Report

Lichen planus is a chronic inflammatory mucocutaneous disease reported most frequently in adults and relatively rare in children with the prevalence being 0.03%. This article reports a case of oral lichen planus (OLP) in a 7-year-old girl without any attendant skin lesions, diagnostic workup, and ma...

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Autores principales: Chinnasamy, Nanthini K, Venugopal, Divyambika C, Sankarapandian, Sathasivasubramanian, Narasimhan, Malathi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7299881/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32581487
http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10005-1713
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author Chinnasamy, Nanthini K
Venugopal, Divyambika C
Sankarapandian, Sathasivasubramanian
Narasimhan, Malathi
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description Lichen planus is a chronic inflammatory mucocutaneous disease reported most frequently in adults and relatively rare in children with the prevalence being 0.03%. This article reports a case of oral lichen planus (OLP) in a 7-year-old girl without any attendant skin lesions, diagnostic workup, and management protocol for the same. This article also emphasizes the need to consider OLP as a differential diagnosis for white lesions of oral mucosa in children. How to cite this article: Chinnasamy NK, Venugopal DC, Sankarapandian S, et al. Oral Lichen Planus in a 7-year-old Child: A Rare Case Report. Int J Clin Pediatr Dent 2020;13(1):91–93.
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spelling pubmed-72998812020-06-23 Oral Lichen Planus in a 7-year-old Child: A Rare Case Report Chinnasamy, Nanthini K Venugopal, Divyambika C Sankarapandian, Sathasivasubramanian Narasimhan, Malathi Int J Clin Pediatr Dent Case Report Lichen planus is a chronic inflammatory mucocutaneous disease reported most frequently in adults and relatively rare in children with the prevalence being 0.03%. This article reports a case of oral lichen planus (OLP) in a 7-year-old girl without any attendant skin lesions, diagnostic workup, and management protocol for the same. This article also emphasizes the need to consider OLP as a differential diagnosis for white lesions of oral mucosa in children. How to cite this article: Chinnasamy NK, Venugopal DC, Sankarapandian S, et al. Oral Lichen Planus in a 7-year-old Child: A Rare Case Report. Int J Clin Pediatr Dent 2020;13(1):91–93. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7299881/ /pubmed/32581487 http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10005-1713 Text en Copyright © 2020; Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd. © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and non-commercial reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Sankarapandian, Sathasivasubramanian
Narasimhan, Malathi
Oral Lichen Planus in a 7-year-old Child: A Rare Case Report
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title_fullStr Oral Lichen Planus in a 7-year-old Child: A Rare Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Oral Lichen Planus in a 7-year-old Child: A Rare Case Report
title_short Oral Lichen Planus in a 7-year-old Child: A Rare Case Report
title_sort oral lichen planus in a 7-year-old child: a rare case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7299881/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32581487
http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10005-1713
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