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The author reports a case of a 44-year-old woman with sciatica due to a herniated lumbar disc complicated by the appearance of a zoster eruption over the same, or nearly the same, dermatome. Among the causative factors that trigger herpes zoster prolapsed intervertebral disc is not usually included.
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Clavel, M.E. Symptomatic herpes zoster and sciatica. Acta neurochir 58, 259–263 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01407132
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