Disseminated Cutaneous Herpes Zoster in an Immunocompetent Elderly Patient

Herpes zoster is a clinical syndrome which usually presents with a localized, vesicular rash in a dermatomal distribution. Cutaneous dissemination rarely occurs in immunocompetent patients, therefore little is known about the baseline demographic, clinical characteristics, management and outcome of...

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Autores principales: Gomez, Eric, Chernev, Ivan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4178270/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25276332
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/idr.2014.5513
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description Herpes zoster is a clinical syndrome which usually presents with a localized, vesicular rash in a dermatomal distribution. Cutaneous dissemination rarely occurs in immunocompetent patients, therefore little is known about the baseline demographic, clinical characteristics, management and outcome of these patients. Herein, we report a case of disseminated cutaneous herpes zoster in an immunocompetent patient along with a review and analysis of 28 cases previously reported in the literature.
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spelling pubmed-41782702014-09-30 Disseminated Cutaneous Herpes Zoster in an Immunocompetent Elderly Patient Gomez, Eric Chernev, Ivan Infect Dis Rep Case Report Herpes zoster is a clinical syndrome which usually presents with a localized, vesicular rash in a dermatomal distribution. Cutaneous dissemination rarely occurs in immunocompetent patients, therefore little is known about the baseline demographic, clinical characteristics, management and outcome of these patients. Herein, we report a case of disseminated cutaneous herpes zoster in an immunocompetent patient along with a review and analysis of 28 cases previously reported in the literature. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2014-08-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4178270/ /pubmed/25276332 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/idr.2014.5513 Text en ©Copyright E. Gomez and I. Chernev http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4178270/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25276332
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