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Reticular Oral Lichen Planus: A Clinical Experience of ENT Surgeons

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Reticular Oral lichen planus (OLP) is a chronic autoimmune disease that presents as fine, white, linear and lace like lesions of the oral cavity referred to as Wickham striae. The clinical characteristics of 30 patients with reticular oral lichen planus is presented so that cases are not missed/misdiagnosed by ENT surgeons. The clinical records noted for each patient were gender, age and clinical presentation of reticular OLP (site affected, presence of symptoms and extraoral manifestations of the disease, smoking habit, and consumption of alcoholic beverages). Twenty patients were females (66.7%) and 10 (33.3%) were males giving a female to male ratio of 2:1. Majority of patients (50%) among both males and females were in the age group of 31–40 years followed by 41–50 years (20%). Oral discomfort/burning sensation was the chief symptom in 24 (80%) patients followed by asymptomatic oral white patches in 5 (16.6%).The buccal (cheek) mucosa was the site most affected (76.8%) followed by the buccal mucosa plus retromolar trigone mucosa (10%) and tongue (6.6%), Extraoral lesions were observed in 2 (6.6%) of patients at presentation with oral lesions and were on the nails in 1 patient and wrist in 1 patient. Tobacco smoking, alcohol use, diabetes and hypertension were reported in 3 (10%), 0%, 2 (6.7%) and 4 (13.3%) patients respectively. ENT surgeons routinely see patients with oral discomfort/oral ulcerations and as such they should be well versed with classical clinical characteristics of reticular oral lichen planus.

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    Suhail Amin Patigaroo, Ihsan Ali, Tabish Maqbool, Haris Qadri, Showkat A. Showkat & Manzoor A. Latoo

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Patigaroo, S.A., Ali, I., Maqbool, T. et al. Reticular Oral Lichen Planus: A Clinical Experience of ENT Surgeons. Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 75, 390–396 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12070-022-03267-y

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