Lichenoid drug eruption with HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (fluvastatin and lovastatin).

Sir, Cutaneous drug reactions have a wide variety of clinical features. Lichenoid drug eruptions (LDE) are rare and it may be difficult to differentiate them from idiopathic lichen planus (1, 2). Gold, quinine, quinidine and penicillamine are well-known inducers of such eruptions (1, 2), but there are only a few reports of lichenoid eruption induced by 3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors (2, 3). Here we report a case of fluvastatinand lovastatin-induced lichenoid eruption.