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Rethinking the causes of pain in herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia: the ectopic pacemaker hypothesis

INTRODUCTION: Pain in herpes zoster (HZ) and postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) is traditionally explained in terms of 2 processes: irritable nociceptors in the rash-inflamed skin and, later, deafferentation due to destruction of sensory neurons in one virally infected dorsal root ganglion. OBJECTIVES AND...

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Autor principal: Devor, Marshall
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6344138/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30706041
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PR9.0000000000000702