Varicella Zoster Infection: A Rare Cause of Abdominal Pain Mimicking Acute Abdomen

Varicella zoster is an acute viral infection that results from reactivation of a latent varicella zoster virus. It usually occurs in adult population and immune compromised patients. It rarely occurs in healthy children. Here we present a 14 years old male with varicella zoster that had abdominal pa...

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Autores principales: Olmez, Deniz, Boz, Alper, Erkan, Nazif
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elmer Press 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3299191/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22461879
http://dx.doi.org/10.4021/jocmr2009.09.1259
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description Varicella zoster is an acute viral infection that results from reactivation of a latent varicella zoster virus. It usually occurs in adult population and immune compromised patients. It rarely occurs in healthy children. Here we present a 14 years old male with varicella zoster that had abdominal pain mimicking acute abdomen to alert others who are consulted for the differentiation of acute abdomen and others who may be consulted for pain management. KEYWORDS: Varicella zoster; Abdominal pain
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spelling pubmed-32991912012-03-29 Varicella Zoster Infection: A Rare Cause of Abdominal Pain Mimicking Acute Abdomen Olmez, Deniz Boz, Alper Erkan, Nazif J Clin Med Res Case Report Varicella zoster is an acute viral infection that results from reactivation of a latent varicella zoster virus. It usually occurs in adult population and immune compromised patients. It rarely occurs in healthy children. Here we present a 14 years old male with varicella zoster that had abdominal pain mimicking acute abdomen to alert others who are consulted for the differentiation of acute abdomen and others who may be consulted for pain management. KEYWORDS: Varicella zoster; Abdominal pain Elmer Press 2009-10 2009-10-16 /pmc/articles/PMC3299191/ /pubmed/22461879 http://dx.doi.org/10.4021/jocmr2009.09.1259 Text en Copyright 2009, Olmez et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Varicella Zoster Infection: A Rare Cause of Abdominal Pain Mimicking Acute Abdomen
title Varicella Zoster Infection: A Rare Cause of Abdominal Pain Mimicking Acute Abdomen
title_full Varicella Zoster Infection: A Rare Cause of Abdominal Pain Mimicking Acute Abdomen
title_fullStr Varicella Zoster Infection: A Rare Cause of Abdominal Pain Mimicking Acute Abdomen
title_full_unstemmed Varicella Zoster Infection: A Rare Cause of Abdominal Pain Mimicking Acute Abdomen
title_short Varicella Zoster Infection: A Rare Cause of Abdominal Pain Mimicking Acute Abdomen
title_sort varicella zoster infection: a rare cause of abdominal pain mimicking acute abdomen
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3299191/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22461879
http://dx.doi.org/10.4021/jocmr2009.09.1259
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