Isolated Oral Mucosal Zoster With Facial Palsy: A Case Report

Herpes zoster (HZ) is an infection characterized by the appearance of unilateral painful vesicular lesions on the skin and mucous membranes. Facial paralysis is one of the complications of HZ. The diagnosis of HZ can be easily missed when there is no lesion on the skin. We present a rare case with i...

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Autores principales: Güder, Hüsna, Hamidi, Aziz A, Cinar, Nilgun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Dermatology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9902067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36756031
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33472
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description Herpes zoster (HZ) is an infection characterized by the appearance of unilateral painful vesicular lesions on the skin and mucous membranes. Facial paralysis is one of the complications of HZ. The diagnosis of HZ can be easily missed when there is no lesion on the skin. We present a rare case with isolated oral mucosal lesions accompanied by facial palsy.
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spelling pubmed-99020672023-02-07 Isolated Oral Mucosal Zoster With Facial Palsy: A Case Report Güder, Hüsna Hamidi, Aziz A Cinar, Nilgun Cureus Dermatology Herpes zoster (HZ) is an infection characterized by the appearance of unilateral painful vesicular lesions on the skin and mucous membranes. Facial paralysis is one of the complications of HZ. The diagnosis of HZ can be easily missed when there is no lesion on the skin. We present a rare case with isolated oral mucosal lesions accompanied by facial palsy. Cureus 2023-01-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9902067/ /pubmed/36756031 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33472 Text en Copyright © 2023, Güder et al. https://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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Güder, Hüsna
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Isolated Oral Mucosal Zoster With Facial Palsy: A Case Report
title Isolated Oral Mucosal Zoster With Facial Palsy: A Case Report
title_full Isolated Oral Mucosal Zoster With Facial Palsy: A Case Report
title_fullStr Isolated Oral Mucosal Zoster With Facial Palsy: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Isolated Oral Mucosal Zoster With Facial Palsy: A Case Report
title_short Isolated Oral Mucosal Zoster With Facial Palsy: A Case Report
title_sort isolated oral mucosal zoster with facial palsy: a case report
topic Dermatology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9902067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36756031
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33472
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