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EDWARD FOULKE CORSON, M.D.; FRANK CROZER KNOWLES, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1922;5(5):619-622.

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In degree of frequency, herpes zoster has been noted to occur in a proportion ranging between 1 and 2 per cent, of all diseases of the skin. Usually the figure is near the smaller percentage and is fairly constant in both European and American clinics. The patches of inflammatory redness, bearing tense, deeply situated vesicles, scattered along the area of distribution of a peripheral nerve, are familiar to the average practitioner and form an easily recognized dermatologic entity. It is ascribed to several causes, some of them with strong claims to recognition. It has several varieties, distinguished mainly by the severity of the disease and the region attacked. During certain periods it has been noted frequently, amounting almost to an epidemic; at other times it has been observed seldom, and sporadically. While clinically one of the clearest-cut dermatoses, atypical cases are occasionally encountered, whose vagaries may have some significance and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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