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Mucosal lichen sclerosus/lichen planus overlap syndrome with cutaneous lesions of lichen sclerosus Volume 26, issue 2, March-April 2016

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1 Division of dermatology,
Department of Internal Related,
2 Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery,
Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine,
7-5-1 Kusunoki-cho,
Chuo-ku,
Kobe 650-0017,
Japan
3 Toko Skin Clinic,
Kobe 658-0081,
Japan
* Corresponding author

In 1994, Marren et al. proposed the new concept of mucosal lichen sclerosus (LS)/lichen planus (LP) syndrome, referring to the simultaneous presence of vulvar LS and oral lichenoid lesions [1]. The two important points of the concept of this syndrome are that: 1) the oral lichenoid lesions should be regarded as LS, or at least a distinct group, when associated with vulvar LS: and 2) that careful attention to malignant transformation is required not only for the vulvar LS but also for the oral LP. [...]