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A 51-year old South Asian female presents with a 6-month history of an itchy scaling rash that started on her anterior shins. She also has asymptomatic lesions inside her mouth that she noticed while brushing. She does not recall a history of any similar eruption. She denies any sick contacts or past medical history. She has used petroleum jelly over the lesions without improvement. Review of systems was positive only for fatigue in the last 3 months.
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Goyal, A., Kundu, R.V. (2016). Lichen Planus. In: Love, P., Kundu, R. (eds) Clinical Cases in Skin of Color. Clinical Cases in Dermatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22392-6_10
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