title: Primary cutaneous actinomycosis of scrotal skin: A rare entity often misdiagnosed.
abstract: Lichen sclerosus (LS) is a rare disease affecting the skin and the mucous membrane, and it is chronic inflammatory in nature. It occurs in both males and females, but mainly affects females in the fifth or sixth decade of life. It mainly involves the genital and perianal areas but can affect any part of the body and the involvement of the oral mucosa is exceptionally rare, but sometimes it affects only the oral mucosa. It requires differentiating from other lesions of the oral cavity which looks similar to this lesion. In considering the rarity of the reported cases, the present article reports one more case of LS affecting the soft palate in an edentulous 66 year-old male patient.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, JLN Medical College, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India.
authors.forename: Varna
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Indushekar
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Dayalveena Charitable Diagnostic and Research Centre, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India.
authors.forename: I L
authors.initials: IL
authors.lastname: Jeswani
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Dayalveena Charitable Diagnostic and Research Centre, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India.
authors.forename: Shikha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Goyal
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Dayalveena Charitable Diagnostic and Research Centre, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India.
authors.forename: Mukesh
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Punjabi
authors.affiliation: Department of Respiratory Medicine, JLN Medical College, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India.
authors.forename: Chetan B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Patil
mesh_terms: D000196:Actinomycosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology*; D003881:Dermatomycoses / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology*; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008853:Microscopy; D008875:Middle Aged; D012611:Scrotum / Q000473:pathology*; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology*