Increased Serum Level and High Tissue Immunoexpression of Interleukin 17 in Cutaneous Lichen Planus: A Novel Therapeutic Target for Recalcitrant Cases?

Table 3

Quantitative comparison of the immunoexpression of IL-17 in tissue specimens of CLP lesions and healthy controls (values expressed as the number of positively stained cells).

	CLP lesions ()	Control (normal skin) ()	value
IL-17 expression
Mean	247.11	36.57	<0.001
SD	158.05	24.9
Range	51.2–623	5.7–82.6