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Carcinoma of the glans penis arising 20 years after lichen sclerosus
T Simonart1, J C Noel, G De Dobbeleer
1Department of Dermatology, Erasme University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium.
Dermatology (Basel, Switzerland)
|June 11, 1998
Abstract:
Lichen sclerosis (LS) is an inflammatory disease of incompletely characterized pathogenesis. The relation between LS and carcinoma is well known in women, but in men it is still a matter of debate whether LS is a premalignant lesion or not. We describe a case of LS of the glans penis which occurred in 1976. Within the next 20 years, the patient developed carcinoma at this site.