Lichen planus pigmentosus-inversus (LPP-inversus) is an extremely rare variant of lichen planus (LP), and only a few cases have been reported. Its course is characterized by exacerbations and remissions, and it is known to be more chronic than classical LP is. We report two cases of LPP-inversus and offer the suggestion that LPP-inversus may originate from LP of flexural areas.

1. Rossi R, Mori M, Lotti T. Actinic keratosis. Int J Dermatol. 2007;46:895--904. 2. Schaefer I, Augustin M, Spehr C, Reusch M, Kornek T. Prevalence and risk factors of actinic keratoses in Germany----analysis of multisource data. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 2014;28:309--13. 3. Naldi L, Chatenoud L, Piccitto R, Colombo P, Placchesi EB, La Vecchia C, et al. Prevalence of actinic keratoses and ...

1. Rossi R, Mori M, Lotti T. Actinic keratosis. Int J Dermatol. 2007;46:895--904. 2. Schaefer I, Augustin M, Spehr C, Reusch M, Kornek T. Prevalence and risk factors of actinic keratoses in Germany----analysis of multisource data. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 2014;28:309--13. 3. Naldi L, Chatenoud L, Piccitto R, Colombo P, Placchesi EB, La Vecchia C, et al. Prevalence of actinic keratoses and ...

Indian Dermatology Online Journal | January-February 2017 | Vol 8 | Issue 1 57 In view of the pressure‐induced lesional changes, pain on weight bearing, and clinical morphology, we favored a diagnosis of PPP but our patient had several unusual features. Most importantly, majority of the lesions were relatively large in size (2.5–3.5 cm) in contrast to the existing literature (0.2– 2 cm, average...

Lichen planopilaris is a disease that appears with lymphocytic cicatricial alopecia. It is considered a follicular variant of lichen planus. The examination of affected areas shows alopecia with perifollicular erythema and scaling, revealing a predilection for hair follicles. The involvement of children is uncommon, with few reports in this population in the literature. This study presents a cl...

Lichen planus (LP) is an idiopathic disorder that presents with cutaneous and genital manifestations. Esophageal LP (ELP) was first described by Al-Shihabi and Jackson [J Laryngol Otol 1982;96:567-571] in 1982. Only approximately 80 cases have been documented in the literature since. It is a rare and underrecognized disorder, leading to a delay in diagnosis and a lack of standardized management...

Based on LSA’s (Latent Semantic Analysis) measuring textual coherence and Halliday and Hasan’s cohesive concepts and their categorization of cohesive devices, this paper analyzes coherent relatedness and cohesive devices of 100 Chinese students’ English writings. The results indicate that (1) LSA is proved to be an objective and appropriate method in measuring the textual coherence, and (2) clo...

Assessing social competence is a time consuming and complex endeavor, which has prompted several institutions to implement automated assessment systems. Although other attempts have been made, the majority of automated assessments are still based on multiple-choice formats. Within this contribution, the authors therefore present a new method of how to assess social competence using LSA. The con...

In the work described in this paper we undertook a fundamental, proof-of-concept exploration of an unsupervised technique for extracting and representing word meanings, called Latent Semantic Analysis. In this paper we detail an implementation of LSA for the purpose of vocabulary acquisition and report preliminary results from testing it on English vocabulary tests akin to the Test of English a...

An increasing number of results in sentence and discourse processing demonstrate that comprehension relies on rich pragmatic knowledge about real-world events, and that incoming words incrementally activate such knowledge. If so, then even outside of any larger context, nouns should activate knowledge of the generalized events that they denote or typically play a role in. We used short stimulus...