Volume : VII, Issue : XII, December - 2017

Segmental Spinal Paresis – A Rare Complication of Herpes Zoster Infection

Dr. Pathan Mohmad Rafe, Dr. Sri Ramya Ganti, Dr. Harsh N Oza

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 Herpes zoster or shingles is acute infectious disease characterized by itching and pain radiating to distribution of cranial or spinal nerve and appearance of vesicular rashes in cutaneous distribution (dermatome) of involved nerve after a few days followed by attenuation of pain and healing of eruption. This process having total course around six to eight weeks and may followed by complication commonly post herpetic neuralgia, scarring and bacterial super infections. Segmental spinal paresis is rare complication characterized by focal, asymmetrical motor weakness involving myotome that corresponds to distribution of dermatomal rash due to spread of infection from dorsal nerve root to anterior horn cell and anterior nerve root.

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Dr. Pathan Mohmad Rafe, Dr. Sri Ramya Ganti, Dr. Harsh N Oza, Segmental Spinal Paresis‾A Rare Complication of Herpes Zoster Infection, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-12 | December-2017

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