Study Status: Recruiting
Recruit Status: Recruiting
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: Incidence of Esophageal Lichen Planus in Patients With Known Oral Lichen Planus. Diagnostic Value of White Light Endoscopy, Narrow Band Imagin
Brief Summary:
The lichen planus is a mucocutaneous disease of unknown etiology with an incidence of 1-2%, that affects in 30-70% of cases either the mucosa of the mouth, or partly in combination with infection of the skin, the oral with his known premalignant potential in up to 2-3% predisposed to the development of an oral squamous cell carcinoma.In rare cases, there is also an manifestation of the lining of the esophagus, which can then be associated with symptomatic strictures of the esophagus.
The value of moreover increasingly established endoscopic imaging procedures are investigated as well as data of the natural long-term outcome in esophageal lichen planus infestation especially in view of malignant transformation.