%0 Journal Article
%T Successful Treatment of a Persistent Esophageal Lichen Planus Stricture With a Fully Covered Metal Stent
%A Alexander Brun
%A Arvind J. Trindade
%A Divyesh V. Sejpal
%A Hina Zaidi
%A Peter Stein
%J Archive of "ACG Case Reports Journal".
%D 2016
%R 10.14309/crj.2016.12
%X We report a case of a 51-year-old woman with an esophageal lichen planus (ELP) stricture refractory to medical therapy and endoscopic stricture dilation. A multidisciplinary decision was made to place an esophageal fully covered metal stent. The stent was removed 6 weeks later and the patient is doing well on 3-month follow up. We show that a removable esophageal stent is an option after standard medical therapy and endoscopic dilations fail. This is the first reported use of an esophageal stent for therapy of an ELP stricture
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4748194/