For the largest possible assortment of articles on LS:

• Medical libraries

• Reviews of the literature on LS (nice overviews!)
• Treatments
• Possible causes
• Lichen sclerosus and cancer
• Lichen sclerosus in males (aka Balanitis Xerotica Obliterans, or BXO)
• Miscellaneous

The good news is that there have been literally hundreds of articles published on the causes, symptoms, and treatments of LS.  So, rather than provide a link to each and every one of these articles (which would be a never-ending task), I have instead provided links to the most popular on-line medical libraries.  The easiest way to get started is to type "lichen sclerosis" and "lichen sclerosus" into the search engines at each of these sites.  Of course, more specific searches (e.g., "lichen sclerosus clobetasol") can also be conducted.

• National Library of Medicine (MEDLINE)
• Mosby
• Combined Health Information Database (CHID)

• Powell et al. 1999 Review
• Meffert et al. 1999 Review
• LS in families:  Report from Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM)

• Clobetasol dipropionate 0.05% versus testosterone propionate 2%
• Effectiveness of potent steroids
• Use of tacrolimus (Protopic) for lichen sclerosus
  
• Treatment of childhood genital lichen sclerosus
• Retinoids: tretinoin, etretinate, acitretin
• Surgical treatment:  A review

• Itch-scratch-lichen sclerosus hypothesis
• Lichen sclerosus and thyroid disease

• Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and LS: A longitudinal cohort study
• SCC and penile LS
• LS and SCC: A cohort, case control, and investigational study
• SCC:  Brief report and review

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• Review of LS in males
• BXO and its differential diagnosis
• Phimosis in boys
• The treatment of phimosis in boys
• Squamous cell carcinoma and penile LS

• Lichen sclerosus and lichen planus

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