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An Old Man with Erythema, Vesicles and Pain over Neck, Chest and Back

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Clinical Cases in Geriatric Exfoliative Dermatitis

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Herpes zoster, presents as unilateral, vesicular eruption, associated with prodrome of pain and burning, involving a single dermatome or adjacent same side dermatome usually in adults and elderly, occasionally in children. In children and adolescents on primary infection, VZV, causes chicken pox, characterized by generalized vesicular eruptions all over the body, associated with fever, sore throat, pruritus, headache etc. After this episode the virus goes into latency for weeks to years, on reactivation causes herpes zoster which is different from chicken pox. Herpes zoster duplex, simultaneous reactivation of VZV involving two different dermatomes, of which Herpes Zoster Duplex Unilateralis (HZDU), occurs unilaterally in two non-contiguous dermatomes while in Herpes Zoster Duplex Bilateralis (HZDB) it may occur in same (symmetric) or different dermatomes (asymmetric) bilaterally.

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  1. Department of Dermatology, Central Hospital Affiliated to Shenyang Medical College, Shenyang, China

    Xiao-Dong Li & Juan Chen

  2. Department of Dermatology, The First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China

    Hao Guo & Xing-Hua Gao

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  1. Science of Communication, Marconi University, Rome, Roma, Italy

    Torello M. Lotti

  2. Dermatologie & Allergologie, Städtisches Klinikum Dresden, Dresden, Sachsen, Germany

    Uwe Wollina

  3. Department of Dermatology & Venereology, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Setchenov University), Moscow, Russia

    Olga Olisova

  4. Psychodermatology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Central Michigan University College of Medicine, Saginaw, MI, USA

    Mohammad Jafferany

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Li, XD., Chen, J., Guo, H., Gao, XH. (2022). An Old Man with Erythema, Vesicles and Pain over Neck, Chest and Back. In: Lotti, T.M., Wollina, U., Olisova, O., Jafferany, M. (eds) Clinical Cases in Geriatric Exfoliative Dermatitis. Clinical Cases in Dermatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09436-1_11

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