It i san atypical variety of red lichen planus, characterized by erosive lesions of varying sizes, as a result of an intense degeneration of the basal layer of mucosal epithelium that produces epithelial detachment, with the formation of blisters of varying sizes that burst, removing the roof of the lesion and exposing the floor of this one.  Diagnosis of the condition is made easier when the typical white line drawings (Wickham’s striae) for this disease are seen around the lesion. Grinspan quotes, in his book Diseases of the Mouth, a ten percent occurrence of malignant transformation in the observed cases.

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