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Herpes Zoster1. Report of a Case With Multiple Nerve Involvement and Varicelliform Generalization 2. A Note on the Frequency of Right- and Left-Side Localization of Herpes
MORRIS LEIDER, M.D.;
MIGUEL A. CONTRERAS, M.D.
AMA Arch Derm. 1957;75(3):397-400.
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Herpes zoster is an infectious disease caused by a virus that is both dermatotropic and neurotropic. In its dermatotropism, the virus usually causes a relatively benign, localized (segmentary) vesicular dermatitis which is attended by more or less symptomatic discomfort (burning, itching, pain) and may result in scarring at the end of its self-limited course. But on the whole the cutaneous process alone is nearly inconsequential, except when it results in severe scarring on an exposed or a desirably exposable site. In its neurotropism, however, the virus of herpes zoster has special predilection for sensory ganglia and may cause protracted disability from long enduring neuritis. Moreover, the potential of this virus to invade and affect other parts of the nervous system, or the whole of it, sometimes makes its neurotropism a still more serious concern. Fortunately, involvement of nerve structures aside from the peripheral sensory is
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Author Affiliations
New York
From the Department of Dermatology and Syphilology of the New York University Post-Graduate Medical School (Dr. Marion B. Sulzberger, Chairman) and the Service of Dermatology and Syphilology of Bellevue Hospital (Dr. Frank C. Combes, Chief of Service).
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Submitted for publication Feb. 8, 1956.
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