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Case Number : Case 1262 - 24 April Posted By: Guest

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M60. Left shoulder lesion. ?Psoriasis, ?GVHD

Case posted by Dr Richard Carr


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Eman El-Nabarawy

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Atrophic type of lichen planus-like keratosis.

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Dr. Richard Carr

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Eman the history should have read "Left shoulder biopsy. ?Psoriasis ?GVHD"

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Guest Romualdo

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[u]I think this is compatible with late chronic GVHD disease.[/u]

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Arti Bakshi

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This is a lichenoid inflammatory reaction with many high dyskeratotic keratinocytes.
Presumably there is a history of organ transplantation, in which case GVHD is likely. Howevere, a drug reaction will show similar features and cannot be reliably distinguished.

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I believe the main point here is trying to differentiate between chronic GVHD x Lichen planus. Although eosinophils are common in Hypertrophic lichen planus this is not the case. Plasma cells are also conspicuous in this case. So I think this is early chronic GVHD disease.

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Lichenoid GVHD (versus lichenoid drug reaction).

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Dr. Hafeez Diwan

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Lichenoid GVHD, given the clinical.

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Dr. Richard Carr

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I agree and favoured early chronic GVHD.
My report as follows.
Marked band-like lichenoid inflammation with complete loss of the basal layer (squamatisation) and some Civatte bodies (necrotic intra-epideral keratinocytes) above the basal layer. Sparse eosinophils only.
Histologically there is some resemblance to lichen planus but Weedon's text states that early chronic GVHD can have these appearaces. The histological differential includes a lichenoid drug eruption and clinical correlation is clearly essential.
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