Severe oral lichen planus: treatment with an aromatic retinoid (etretinate)
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in British Journal of Dermatology
- Vol. 106 (1) , 77-80
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2133.1982.tb00904.x
Abstract
A double-blind study of twenty-eight patients with severe oral lichen planus treated with etretinate (75 mg daily) or a placebo for 2 months, showed that the oral retinoid had a marked beneficial effect. Nine non-responders who had received only placebo then entered an open cross-over study and they responded well to etretinate. Etretinate thus provided effective symptomatic relief for severe oral lichen planus, but side-effects were common, and six patients stopped treatment because of them.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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