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Ten cases of severe oral lichen planus showing granular C3 deposition in oral mucosal basement membrane zone Volume 25, numéro 6, November-December 2015

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Auteurs
1 Department of Dermatology,
Kurume University School of Medicine,
and Kurume University Institute of Cutaneous Cell Biology,
67 Asahimachi, Kurume,
Fukuoka 830-0011, Japan
2 First Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery,
Osaka Dental University,
Osaka, Japan
3 Department of Dermatology,
Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine,
Osaka, Japan
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Lichen planus (LP) is an inflammatory disease, which shows characteristic clinical and histopathological features and involves the skin and various mucous membranes [1]. Although LP is known to be triggered by various factors, including drugs, viruses and oral metals, pathogenic mechanisms are still unknown [1].Oral mucosal lesions of LP are called oral LP (OLP) [2-6]. OLP is characterized clinically by erythemas and reticular lace-like whitish coating with erosions and ulcers on the oral mucosae [...]