Although circumcision can be curative, the use of topical steroids is typically the first-line treatment and may preserve the foreskin and forgo the need for circumcision altogether. Although the majority of cases can be treated by medical therapy and circumcision, a significant number of patients may also require penile reconstructive procedures. The mainstay of surgical management of male LS is circumcision, which typically is recommended after the failure of topical corticosteroid treatment, especially in early-stage uncomplicated cases1. It has been hypothesised that circumcision allows the glans to fully keratinise6 and also removes the occlusive effect of foreskin, such that micro-incontinence cannot lead to the pooling of urine and inflammation4. The main indication for circumcision is LS-caused phimosis which has not responded to corticosteroid treatment2; in fact, surgery may also reveal active disease on the glans or in the coronal sulcus, which later can be treated by corticosteroids2.

Surgical treatment

It is advisable to wash clothing daily and bedlinen frequently, if they are in contact with emollients; however, this may not remove the risk completely, even if washed at high temperatures, so caution is still needed. If the opening at the tip of the penis becomes so narrow that urine cannot pass through it easily, the urologist may recommend gently stretching it and / or apply steroid ointments to the area and, failing this, consider surgery. It is therefore important that you seek advice if you have any problems passing water. Sometimes the foreskin may be too tight to withdraw, making it impossible to clean the tip of penis.

Circumcision has a cure rate of more than 90% in men with altered anatomy caused by scarring23, although there are few data on long-term recurrence rates. Additionally, the biopsy taken during surgery may be used to confirm a clinical diagnosis of LS or facilitate the earlier detection of malignancy2. Other methods of surgical management include glans resurfacing and skin grafting. Glans resurfacing is indicated in severe LS47; it involves a circumcision and the removal of the penile glandular epithelium. A free split-thickness skin graft then can be harvested from the thigh and transplanted over the glans while using interrupted sutures throughout48. Palminteriet al. showed a preference against using buccal mucosa as graft material as they observed some desquamation of the graft following exposure of air48.

Clinical findings

The affected skin of the penis can look red, with little cracks, sores, bleeding points or small blood-blisters. When the skin has been inflamed for some time, it can turn white and become thinned. Scarring can develop and change the appearance of the foreskin or tip of the penis. When the tightened foreskin is retracted, it may draw in around the shaft of the penis like a tight band (‘waisting’). The affected skin may feel uncomfortable, sometimes itchy, burning, and sore, especially during or after sex. Often the foreskin gets tighter and more difficult to retract, leading to painful erections.

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Case series with polymerase chain reaction analysis for high-risk HPV presence provided discordant results27 and do not explain the relationship between LS, penile SCC and HPV infection. Phimosis is another confounding potential risk factor for penile SCC since LS can also occur in phimosis29. It is important to note that there is no gold standard for the surgical treatment of male LS. Reconstructive urologists often have differing opinions on the optimal surgical management of LS-induced urethral stricture disease because of, for example, differences in training and exposure to such patients46. The main aims for the management of LS are to exclude malignant transformation, provide symptomatic relief, minimise urinary or sexual morbidity, and mitigate malignant transformation and preserve foreskin when feasible4,6,33. All management strategies should be combined with conservative measures, such as using an emollient as a soap substitute and skin barrier2, minimising contact with irritant factors (for example, urine after micturition)33.

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• Itch, blistering, bruising, bleeding, erosions or urinary symptoms are possible but less common in the male presentation of genital LS6.
• It is unproven whether early corticosteroid or surgical treatment of LS mitigates the risk of malignant transformation, although a recent retrospective review of 301 patients found no progression to penile SCC in their cohort33.

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Calcineurin inhibitors (for example, tacrolimus and pimecrolimus) provide an effective off-label medical treatment option for male genital LS, although their response rates are lower than those of topical corticosteroids23. Therefore, BAD guidelines suggest that any patient who fails to respond to 1 to 3 months of topical corticosteroid treatment should be referred for further evaluation and possibly to a urologist for circumcision2. Surgical reconstruction with urethroplasty, which involves either one or two stages, may be needed for severe complicated LS in the anterior urethra (Table 2). Buccal mucosa is typically the graft of choice as it has a consistent and vascular lamina propria whilst mitigating the high risk of recurrence found with genital skin grafts39.

It has been suggested that 10% of all male urethral strictures could be caused by LS23. Differential diagnoses of LS include infective balanitis, squamous neoplasia, plasma cell (Zoon’s) balanitis, mucosal or erosive lichen planus, and psoriasis23,32. In circumcised males, a tiny drop of urine appearing at the meatus postmicturation will have negligible contact with a keratinised glans before being absorbed by undergarments. In an uncircumcised male with similarly dysfunctional terminal urethral arrangements, the situation is very different.

• There is little evidence of a genetic predisposition for male LS, although this has been implicated in women4.
• All management strategies should be combined with conservative measures, such as using an emollient as a soap substitute and skin barrier2, minimising contact with irritant factors (for example, urine after micturition)33.
• Possible hypotheses for the development of LS include chronic exposure to trapped urine, leading to changes in the epithelial structure.
• If this happens it is important to seek advice from a doctor as there may be an increased risk of cancer if this problem is left untreated.
• Following a scrotoplasty, a split-thickness skin graft – from either the escutcheon or a thigh – can be used to reconstruct the penis.

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LS of the urethra is typically managed surgically, although Pottset al.37 have found intraurethral steroids, applied onto a urinary catheter or meatal dilator, to be a safe and effective treatment for male LS patients with urethral strictures. Extended meatotomies often are performed in meatal stenosis or fossa navicularis and distal strictures to create a hypospadiac meatus38,39. In a cohort study of 16 patients with refractory fossa navicularis strictures, an extended meatotomy (first-stage Johanson manoeuvre) was found to be successful in 87%40. Malone41 described a different technique that combines dorsal and ventral meatotomies with an inverted V-shaped incision to avoid a hypospadiac meatus; however, no further studies have been performed on this technique. The gene expression profiling of male genital LS shows no evidence of association with either autoimmune diseases or the human papilloma virus (HPV), suggesting that these are not relevant in the pathogenesis of male LS2,11.

Table 2. Summary of types of urethroplasties performed in more complicated male lichen sclerosus cases.

LS can present with concurrent buried penis, for which genital reconstruction may be required to restore sexual and urinary function and improve quality of life. The typical treatment for this condition involves an escutcheonectomy where the excess fat tissue, the escutcheon, between the waistline sulcus and inguinal creases is removed. Following a scrotoplasty, a split-thickness skin graft – from either the escutcheon or a thigh – can be used to reconstruct the penis. Patient satisfaction rates were observed to be greater than 80%, and the most common complication was local wound infection at a rate of up to 20%49. A recent retrospective cohort study suggested that full-thickness skin grafts from escutcheon tissue could also be used with improved wound healing50. Patient satisfaction was only reported subjectively, and 2 (15%) out of 13 had superficial wound infections.