The vulvovaginal-gingival syndrome of lichen planus. The clinical characteristics of 22 patients

Mucosal vulval lichen planus: outcome, clinical and laboratory features

“…The mean age was 57 years at the onset of the vulval disease. This is in keeping with a perimenopausal age of onset noted in other studies, in which the mean age of onset varied between 40 and 57 years (range 23–74 years) 7,10,11 . Classical cutaneous LP is uncommon in children, 12–15 and mucosal vulval LP has not been reported before puberty.…”

“…Buccal lesions seem to predominate over gingival lesions in the oral mucosa; this distribution was also observed by Bermejo and Edwards 18,19 but contrasts with the observations of Pelisse and Ridley who described more gingival lesions 7,20,21 . Only very few of our patients had skin LP, as observed in many other studies 7,10,19,22 …”

Influence of Treatment of Erosive Lichen Planus of the Vulva on Its Prognosis

“…It is the first prospective study to document the response of the clinical signs and symptoms of ELPV to treatment. This study confirms that ELPV is a disease of perimenopausal and postmenopausal women, with a mean age at onset of symptoms of 57 years, similar to findings of other series (age range, 49-52 years 4,[7][8][9] ). In contrast, extragenital cutaneous LP has a younger age at onset, usually occurring in the fourth to sixth decades of life.…”

Vulvovaginal-gingival Lichen Planus: Association with Lichen Planopilaris and Stratified Epithelium-specific Antinuclear Antibodies

“…The VVG-LP is a special form of LP with involvement of the genital and oral mucous membranes, first described by Pelisse et al (2). This triad: vulvitis, vaginitis and gingivitis in patients with LP has also been described by Eisen (27), Rogers & Eisen (28) and Setterfield et al (29). Di Fede (30) found that 27 patients had genital involvement out of 31 patients with oral LP (27/31, 87.1%), this study included both genital LP and lichen sclerosus.…”