Thyroid diseases and lichen planopilaris: A case control study
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Lichen planopilaris (LPP) is also known as lichen follicularis or follicular lichen planus. LPP is a cutaneous disorder selectively involving hair follicles with a lymphocytic inflammatory process that eventually destroys the follicles 1. LPP is more common in women (60% to 90% of the cases) than men 2. LPP is a disease of unknown etiology whose pathogenesis is poorly understood despite a suspected autoimmune origin. Lichen planus (LP) has been associated with multiple disease processes and agents, such as viral infections. In recent years, many other associations have been reported. A few studies have been carried out to investigate the association between lichen planus and thyroid dysfunction 3,4. Our aim in this study was to investigate the thyroid function status in LPP patients. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS
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