Bilateral Symmetrical Herpes Zoster in an Immunocompetent 15-Year-Old Adolescent Boy

Herpes zoster is uncommon in immunocompetent children. The bilateral symmetrical occurrence of herpes zoster lesions is extremely rare. We report a 15-year-old immunocompetent Chinese adolescent boy who developed bilateral symmetrical herpes zoster lesions. To our knowledge, the occurrence of bilate...

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Autores principales: Leung, Alexander K. C., Barankin, Benjamin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4323070/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25692062
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/121549
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description Herpes zoster is uncommon in immunocompetent children. The bilateral symmetrical occurrence of herpes zoster lesions is extremely rare. We report a 15-year-old immunocompetent Chinese adolescent boy who developed bilateral symmetrical herpes zoster lesions. To our knowledge, the occurrence of bilateral symmetrical herpes zoster lesions in an immunocompetent individual has not been reported in the pediatric literature.
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spelling pubmed-43230702015-02-17 Bilateral Symmetrical Herpes Zoster in an Immunocompetent 15-Year-Old Adolescent Boy Leung, Alexander K. C. Barankin, Benjamin Case Rep Pediatr Case Report Herpes zoster is uncommon in immunocompetent children. The bilateral symmetrical occurrence of herpes zoster lesions is extremely rare. We report a 15-year-old immunocompetent Chinese adolescent boy who developed bilateral symmetrical herpes zoster lesions. To our knowledge, the occurrence of bilateral symmetrical herpes zoster lesions in an immunocompetent individual has not been reported in the pediatric literature. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-01-27 /pmc/articles/PMC4323070/ /pubmed/25692062 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/121549 Text en Copyright © 2015 A. K. C. Leung and B. Barankin. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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title_short Bilateral Symmetrical Herpes Zoster in an Immunocompetent 15-Year-Old Adolescent Boy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4323070/
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