Abstract
A retrospective chart review was undertaken of patients attending a specialist vulval service between 2013 and 2015 with a clinical diagnosis of LS. Patients in whom there was clinical diagnostic uncertainty or those with features of lichen planus or lichen planus/LS overlap were excluded. We determined the proportion of these patients who underwent vulval biopsy and reviewed their histology. One hundred fifteen charts were reviewed. Sixty-nine (69/115, 60%) had a firm diagnosis of established LS, and of these, 39 (39/69, 56.5%) had a biopsy performed in the previous 5 years. Thirteen (13/39, 33.3%) of these biopsies fell short of a diagnosis of LS histologically with some suggestive but nondiagnostic and some showing nonspecific features. Reliance on biopsies solely to establish or exclude the diagnosis of LS is inadvisable. A good level of knowledge of the characteristic clinical features is imperative among gynecologists, dermatologists, and general practitioners.
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