A case of zoster sine herpete presenting with dysphagia diagnosed by PCR analysis of VZV DNA in auricular skin exudates

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 668-670

  Yaguchi, Hiroshi ^a   Hisatomi, Mamoru ^a   Sekine, Takeshi ^a   Matsui, Kazutaka ^a   Nagatomo, Mariko ^a   Inoue, Kiyoharu ^b  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dysphagia; Glossopharyngeal vagal nerve involvement; PCR; Varicella zoster virus; Zoster sine herpete

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; VIRUS DNA;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; MONONUCLEAR CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VAGUS NERVE DISEASE; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS;

ACYCLOVIR; AGED; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DNA, VIRAL; EAR; EARACHE; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE DISEASES; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZOSTER SINE HERPETE;

EID: 33846849402     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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