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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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Autores principales: Monib, Sherif, Pakdemirli, Emre
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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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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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.
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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
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