Assessing the performance of a new diagnostic criterion for diagnosing esophageal lichen planus
Anwesh Dash, Alexandra Strauss Starling, Sydney Shaffer, Amanda Muir, Kristle L Lynch · 2026
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Description
Lichen planus is a skin condition that can also strike the swallowing tube, where it is hard to spot and easy to miss. Anwesh Dash, Alexandra Strauss Starling, Sydney Shaffer, Amanda Muir, and Kristle Lynch test a published scoring system, the Schauer criteria, for making that call. They scored throat samples from seventy-seven patients, some with the skin form of the disease and some without.
The scores matched specialist judgment well in patients who already had the skin form. In patients without it, the scores disagreed more often, which hints that doctors are missing cases in that group. Common signs were pale, peeling lining and certain cell patterns under the microscope. Wider use of the criteria could standardize the diagnosis.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Anwesh Dash, Alexandra Strauss Starling, Sydney Shaffer, Amanda Muir, Kristle L Lynch |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 20 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |