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Frontal fibrosing alopecia in a woman with vulvar erosive lichen planus
Alopecia frontal fibrosante en una mujer con liquen plano erosivo vulvar
María Librada Porriño-Bustamantea,b,
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mporrinobustamante@gmail.com

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, Pablo Lázaro-Ochaitaa, María Antonia Fernández-Pugnairec
a Servicio de Dermatología, Hospital Universitario La Zarzuela, Madrid, Spain
b Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
c Servicio de Dermatología, Hospital Universitario San Cecilio, Granada, Spain
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often placed on the medial aspect of the minor labia and vaginal orifice&#46; Advanced LPV can distort the vulvar architecture&#44; similar to that in LSV&#44; with agglutination of the minor labia&#44; clitoris phimosis and introital narrowing&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0040"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a> Unless LSV&#44; LPV may affect vagina&#44; causing erosions and stenosis&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0040"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a> eVLP usually produces pain&#44; itch or burning&#44; and may associate dyspareunia and vaginal discharge if the vagina is affected&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0035"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2&#44;3</span></a></p><p id="par0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">LP is thought to be a T-cell mediated autoimmune disease&#46; The autoimmune phenotype of the LPV and LSV is supported by the demonstration of increased levels of Th1-specific cytokines&#44; dense T-cell infiltrate&#44; and enhanced microRNA-155 expression&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0045"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a> Autoimmune disorders are more frequent in eLPV&#44; being thyroid disease the most prevalent one&#46; Moreover&#44; coexistence of LSV and LPV is not rare&#46;</p><p id="par0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Chew et al&#46; found that 16 out of 83 of patients with LPV had LPP &#40;8&#47;16&#41; or FFA &#40;8&#47;16&#41;&#46; All patients with FFA had oral LP&#44; and 7 of them had the erosive variant of LPV&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0050"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a></p><p id="par0040" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Patients with an autoimmune disease are prone to develop another one&#44; because of the similar genetic and environmental factors among them&#59; it is called polyautoimmunity&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0030"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a> An autoimmune hypothesis for the pathogenesis of FFA has been recently proposed&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0030"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a> pointing the infundibulum melanocytes as an antigenic target&#46; Polyautoimmunity may justify the coexistence of FFA and LPV&#46;</p><p id="par0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In conclusion&#44; we report a woman with eLPV and eyebrow alopecia&#44; who later developed a scarring alopecic patch in the context of FFA&#46; Further studies are needed to clarify the pathogenesis of both entities&#46; As untreated eLPV and LSV may produce sequels&#44; patients with FFA or LPP may be explored properly with the aim of making an early diagnosis of possible accompanying vulvar diseases&#44; not only for the cutaneous and oral conditions&#46;</p><span id="sec0005" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0005">Funding sources</span><p id="par0050" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">None&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0010" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0010">Conflict of interest</span><p id="par0055" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">None declared&#46;</p></span></span>"
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