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Shingles (Herpes Zoster) Mimicking Acute Abdomen
Shingles is a very well-known viral infection caused by the varicella-zoster virus leading to painful skin rash. Although shingles can occur anywhere, it most often appears as a single stripe of blisters around the hypochondriac region. We are presenting a rare atypical presentation of shingles, as...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7603891/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33150112 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10762 |
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author | Monib, Sherif Pakdemirli, Emre |
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description | Shingles is a very well-known viral infection caused by the varicella-zoster virus leading to painful skin rash. Although shingles can occur anywhere, it most often appears as a single stripe of blisters around the hypochondriac region. We are presenting a rare atypical presentation of shingles, as our patient presented with a picture of the acute abdomen a couple of days prior to the eruption of skin lesions. |
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spelling | pubmed-76038912020-11-03 Shingles (Herpes Zoster) Mimicking Acute Abdomen Monib, Sherif Pakdemirli, Emre Cureus Dermatology Shingles is a very well-known viral infection caused by the varicella-zoster virus leading to painful skin rash. Although shingles can occur anywhere, it most often appears as a single stripe of blisters around the hypochondriac region. We are presenting a rare atypical presentation of shingles, as our patient presented with a picture of the acute abdomen a couple of days prior to the eruption of skin lesions. Cureus 2020-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7603891/ /pubmed/33150112 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10762 Text en Copyright © 2020, Monib et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Dermatology Monib, Sherif Pakdemirli, Emre Shingles (Herpes Zoster) Mimicking Acute Abdomen |
title | Shingles (Herpes Zoster) Mimicking Acute Abdomen |
title_full | Shingles (Herpes Zoster) Mimicking Acute Abdomen |
title_fullStr | Shingles (Herpes Zoster) Mimicking Acute Abdomen |
title_full_unstemmed | Shingles (Herpes Zoster) Mimicking Acute Abdomen |
title_short | Shingles (Herpes Zoster) Mimicking Acute Abdomen |
title_sort | shingles (herpes zoster) mimicking acute abdomen |
topic | Dermatology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7603891/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33150112 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10762 |
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