lichen amyloidosis
Findings
No curated finding names lichen amyloidosis yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
Lichen amyloidosis is a rare chronic form of cutaneous amyloidosis, a skin disease characterized by the accumulation of amyloid deposits in the dermis, clinically characterized by the development of pruritic, often pigmented, hyperkeratotic papules on trunk and extremities, especially on the shins, and histologically by the deposition of amyloid or amyloid-like proteins in the papillary dermis.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0018856), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Features
2 features
What the disease is reported to present with, and how often among people who have it — never how often a feature means the disease. HPO, annotations 2026-09-02.
- PapuleHPOHP:0200034
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- PruritusHPOHP:0000989
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
Where it sits
- A kind of
Other names
2 names
Resolves to: lichen amyloidosis
- Also called
- amyloid lichenlichen amyloidosus