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Research Article| Volume 1, ISSUE 3, P177-180, 1988

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Genital lichen sclerosus in prepubertal girls

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      Abstract

      Thirty-five girls with a diagnosis of genital lichen sclerosus were seen in review. Follow-up ranged from 1 to 11 1/2 years with almost half of the patients followed for 5 or more years. Only 5 of 27 girls examined did not have clinical evidence of genital lichen sclerosus lesions. Of these 5, 2 girls were still intermittently symptomatic, and another 2 had been followed for only 1 year. When the patient's symptomatology alone was considered, 9 had unchanged symptoms and 26 had improvement or resolution of their symptoms. Eleven of the 26 had improvement, 12 had total resolution of symptoms, and 3 had always been asymptomatic. No relationship between menarche and symptomatic improvement or resolution of the disease was observed. Of the 22 girls with lichen sclerosus lesions, 3 had atrophy of the labia minora and clitoral phimosis, and 1 also had marked contracture of the introitus. This review challenges the commonly held view that prepubertal genital lichen sclerosus is a process that resolves with time and the advent of puberty or estrogenization. The current philosophy of withholding topical testosterone, a potentially curative therapy, from all premenarchal girls should be reevaluated in selected cases.

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