Herpes zoster after reconstruction for head and neck cancer

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Parikh, Pranay M ^a   Davison, Steven P ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; FAMCICLOVIR; VALACICLOVIR;

AGED; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLINDNESS; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHEEK; CHEEK MUCOSA; DERMATOME; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMPIRICISM; ENCEPHALITIS; FACE RASH; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LETTER; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEURALGIA; PLASTIC SURGERY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DERMATITIS; RECURRENT CANCER; REMISSION; RISK REDUCTION; SKIN DEFECT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; WOUND CARE; ARTICLE; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; VIROLOGY;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 58149390716     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31818dc04d     Document Type: Letter

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