SCARRING ALOPECIA DURING DISCOID LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, CLINICAL CASE

Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Scalp Arising from Chronic Discoid Lupus Erythematosus with Scarring Alopecia

Neoplasms have rarely been reported in lesions of lupus erythematosus (LE) and have included basal cell carcinoma (BCC), squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), and atypical fibroxanthoma. We here report a case of SCC of the scalp arising from a patch of scarring alopecia secondary to chronic discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE). Surgical excision of the tumor with a 1cm margin was performed, showing a dee...

Discoid lupus erythematosus: a profile.

OBJECTIVE To determine the demographic data, clinical pattern and therapeutic outcome in patients with discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE). STUDY DESIGN Case series. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY The Department of Dermatology, Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Jamshoro, from January 2004 to December 2008. METHODOLOGY Patients of either gender aged above 18 years diagnosed wit...

Chronic cutaneous (discoid) lupus erythematosus.

Dermoscopy of discoid lupus erythematosus

Cite this article as: Jha AK, Sonthalia S, Sarkar R. Dermoscopy of discoid lupus erythematosus. Indian Dermatol Online J 2016;7:458. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non‐commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creati...

Linear cutaneous lupus erythematosus/discoid lupus erythematosus in an adult

Linear cutaneous lupus erythematosus (LCLE) is rare. The LCLE was proposed by Abe et al. [1] for discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE) with a linear configuration in 1988. It occurs mainly in children and young adults. Lesions appear as linear unilateral erythematous plaques following the Blaschko lines and are observed most frequently on the face, although the neck, trunk and extremities may also ...