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ORPHA:254395

Actinic lichen planus

high confidenceDisorder

Also known as: Actinic LP · Lichen planus actinus · Lichen planus subtropicus · Lichen planus tropicus · Lichenoid melanodermatitis · Summertime actinic lichenoid eruption

Query health: suspect — Only one of 2 strategies returned hits (phrase).

Publications

183

66.2th percentile

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

733

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

—

Readiness

2/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

A rare cutaneous lichen planus characterized by the development of photo-distributed lichenoid lesions.

How rare: How common this is has not been clearly measured.

Orphanet entry

Cross-references

Joined from Mondo / Orphanet. MeSH labels may enter searches; UMLS / OMIM / NCIT are stored for reference.

Additional Mondo synonyms (6)

actinic LP · lichen planus actinus · lichen planus subtropicus · lichen planus tropicus · lichenoid melanodermatitis · summertime actinic lichenoid eruption

Research stages

Trial readiness signals

Where this condition sits on an open-data research pipeline — not how close a treatment is, and not medical advice. Empty stages often mean “not in these databases under this Mondo ID,” not “impossible.”

2/6 stages with a signal

No specific-condition interventional trial, but broader-category trials exist — discuss eligibility with a clinician.

  1. Gene identifiedNot found

    No GenCC disease–gene assertion in this build

  2. LiteraturePresent

    183 matched papers (99 in last 10 years) Source

  3. Phenotype characterisedNot checked

    Not yet enriched from Monarch / HPO

  4. Animal modelNot checked

    Not yet enriched from Monarch / Alliance

  5. Orphan designationNot checked

    FDA/EMA orphan-drug designation not enriched yet

  6. Interventional trialPartial

    None under the specific name; 143 for broader category lichen planus

Biology

Genes and phenotypes

Gene–disease validity from GenCC, plus phenotypes and animal models joined from Monarch Initiative via Mondo ID — not a clinical diagnosis aid.

Do we know what causes it?

Not yet — the cause hasn't been pinned down in GenCC.

No strong gene–disease assertion joined for this Orphanet entity.

Phenotypes (Monarch / HPO)

Not enriched in this build — Monarch phenotype joins were not run for this record.

Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)

Not enriched in this build.

Literature

Is anyone studying this?

183

183 papers have ever been published on this condition (under this name). For scale, breast cancer has over 700,000. Median papers in the last 10 years for a rare disease in this dataset (publications denominator n=5449) is 41.

183 papers since the earliest indexed year in this search — median last-10-year count for a rare disease in this dataset is 41 (publications denominator n=5449).

99 in the last 10 years · high confidence · 66.2th percentile (publications denominator)

Phrase hits: 183 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

733

Distinct author names in 183 sampled papers — named people below.

Who's working on it?

No interventional trial matched this name; these authors publish on it in the sampled literature — a practical starting point for contact.

  1. 01
    Madke B3 papers · 2023

    Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprosy, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and AVBR Hospital, Sawangi Meghe, Wardha, Maharashtra, India.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Turki H3 papers · 2017

    2 Department of Dermatology, Hedi Chaker Hospital, Sfax, Tunisia.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Zanca A3 papers · 2018

    Dermatologic Clinic, ASST Spedali Civili of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Agrawal S2 papers · 2024

    Department of Dermatology, LN Medical College, Bhopal, IND.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Bouassida S2 papers · 2008

    Service de Dermatologie, CHU Hédi Chaker.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Boudaya S2 papers · 2008
    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Chiheb S2 papers · 2024

    Service de dermatologie vénérologie, CHU Ibn Rochd, Casablanca, Maroc.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Denguezli M2 papers · 2010

    Service de Dermatologie, CHU Farhat Hached, Sousse, Tunisie.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Errichetti E2 papers · 2023

    Institute of Dermatology, "Santa Maria della Misericordia" University Hospital, Udine, Italy.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Inamadar AC2 papers · 2013

    Department of Skin, STD and Leprosy, SBMP Medical College, Bijapur 596 103, India.

    Papers in Europe PMC

Clinical research

Is a treatment being tested?

0

interventional trials for this specific condition

No interventional trial testing a treatment matched this specific condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov (observational studies and pan-disease registries are listed separately when present). 143 trials are registered for lichen planus, the broader category — shown separately because they may or may not enrol this specific subtype.

Data as of 27 July 2026

No matched interventional trials. This is true for 73% of diseases in the trials denominator (5114 of 7003). Here are the researchers publishing on it.

high confidence · 36.5th percentile (trials denominator)

Recruiting interventional trials

From the matched ClinicalTrials.gov set

No interventional trial testing a treatment was found for this specific condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov.

143 interventional trials matched lichen planus, the broader category — listed below. Those studies are not counted in the condition-specific total.

Broader category: lichen planus

143

Interventional trials for the parent category, exclusive of NCT IDs already counted above. Eligibility for this subtype is not guaranteed.

Worth raising with a clinician. How we count trials.

Recruiting under the broader category

Where to find support

We do not yet link condition-specific patient organisations. These umbrella groups support undiagnosed and ultra-rare families:

India — NPRD

Last verified 2026-07-26

This ORPHAcode is not on our curated NPRD list (direct or Mondo-parent match). That does not decide clinical eligibility; families in India should ask a notified Centre of Excellence about current coverage.

Hand-curated for this project. ORPHAcode mappings are best-effort and may be incomplete or imprecise for umbrella categories. Parent (Mondo) matches mean the policy lists a broader category — confirm eligibility with a Centre of Excellence. Financial entitlements summarised from public policy statements and may change. This is not official government guidance.

How we counted this

Europe PMC query (preferred label + any corrected label + Orphanet and Mondo exact synonyms, stoplisted; unioned with resolved MeSH labels when available). UMLS / OMIM / NCIT cross-references are stored on the overview but are not added to the query string.

"Actinic lichen planus" OR "Actinic LP" OR "Lichen planus actinus" OR "Lichen planus subtropicus" OR "Lichen planus tropicus" OR "Lichenoid melanodermatitis" OR "Summertime actinic lichenoid eruption"

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ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):

"Actinic lichen planus" OR "Actinic LP" OR "Lichen planus actinus" OR "Lichen planus subtropicus" OR "Lichen planus tropicus" OR "Lichenoid melanodermatitis" OR "Summertime actinic lichenoid eruption" OR "lichen disease"

Recall-expansion terms: lichen disease

Study-type breakdown: 0 interventional · 0 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.

Parent-category trials query:

"lichen planus"

Query health: suspect — strategies attempted: phrase, recall-expansion; with hits: phrase

Run this search on ClinicalTrials.gov

Confidence reasoning

  • Preferred label is multi-word and distinctive
  • No synonyms dropped by stoplist
  • No label/synonym collisions with other diseases in this corpus

Ingested 2026-07-27T11:02:37.663Z