Lichen Nitidus

Known as: Lichen Nitidus [Disease/Finding], Pinkus' disease

A chronic inflammatory disease characterized by shiny, flat-topped, usually flesh-colored micropapules no larger than the head of a pin. Lesions are…

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1998

We report the case of a patient in whom lichen nitidus with hemorrhage was found on the palm and the thigh. Histopathologically…

1995

A 27‐year‐old man was seen with multiple, small, shiny papules on his shoulders, upper arms, and trunk, and hyperpigmented…

1995

I report familial lichen nitidus in a 33‐year‐old father and his 3‐year‐old daughter. Histopathology of small papules in both…

Review

1988

Review

1988

Lichen nitidus is usually regarded as an eruption characterized by multiple flesh‐coloured domed papules occurring on the limbs…

1983

Cressey, Roger. Parasitic Copepods from the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, I: Holobomolochus and Neobomolochus. Smithsonian…

1982

Skin biopsies from a patient suffering from lichen nitidus were studied by electron microscopy and immunofluorescence studies…

1981

A skin biopsy from an 8‐year‐old boy with generalized lichen nitidus revealed a transepidermal perforating lesion never observed…

1973

Skin biopsy specimens from six patients with lichen nitidus (LN) were negative for γ-globulin when stained with fluorescein…

1972

In a patient with lichen nitidus, vesicular and hemorrhagic lesions were intermixed with typical lichenoid papules. The…

1971

Lichen nitidus which involved the palms and soles occurred in two patients. To our knowledge, only eight cases of this disease…