Showing posts with label Herpes zoster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Herpes zoster. Show all posts

Herpes Zoster (shingles)

Herpes zoster (shingles) is a local manifestation of reactivation of latent varicella infection in the dorsal ganglia radix. Vesicular lesions appear as erythema limited basis in areas of skin, which follows the course of a single sensory nerve ganglia or group radix dorsalis. The lesions can appear in the form of an irregular bubble gang during the course of the nerve, usually unilateral. Vesicles located deeper and gather more closely than chicken pox, herpes zoster and varicella are histologically similar to each other. Almost always accompanied by pain and paresthesias once, and about 30% of adults who fell ill suffered from postherpetic neuralgia herpes.