Clinical parameters in male genital lichen sclerosus: A case series of 329 patients

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 730-737

  Edmonds, E V J ^a   Hunt, S ^a   Hawkins, D ^a   Dinneen, M ^a   Francis, N ^b   Bunker, C B ^a  

^a CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BALANOPOSTHITIS; BLEEDING; BLISTER; BURNING SENSATION; CIRCUMCISION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONDYLOMA ACUMINATUM; DYSPAREUNIA; DYSURIA; ECZEMA; EROSION; ERYTHEMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LEUKODERMA; LICHEN SCLEROSUS ET ATROPHICUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE GENITAL LICHEN SCLEROSUS; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHIMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PSORIASIS; PURPURA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCLEROSIS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SKIN BRUISING; SKIN HYPERTROPHY; SKIN IRRITATION; SKIN ULCER; TELANGIECTASIA; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; URINE FLOW RATE;

GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HUMANS; LICHEN SCLEROSUS ET ATROPHICUS; MALE;

EID: 84861578649     PISSN: 09269959     EISSN: 14683083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-3083.2011.04155.x     Document Type: Article

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