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JOZSEF TAKO, MD; JANOS P. RADO, MD

Arch Neurol. 1965;12(6):610-612.

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THE EARLY enthusiastic reports concerning the treatment of herpes zoster with corticosteroids¹ have been followed by a number of publications. Several have shown that herpes zoster may develop during steroid treatment^2-5 and in some cases the course of the disease was severe,⁴ with the development of gangrene⁵ and generalized herpes zoster. We have reported on an outbreak of a "house epidemic" of herpes zoster among corticosteroid-treated patients.⁸ In the steroid-treated patient to be described below, gangrenous herpes zoster developed, followed by a recurrence, generalization of the disease, and meningoencephalitis. We believe that the case is unique and therefore merits publication.

Report of Case

A female nurse, 50 years of age, was admitted July 4, 1960, with generalized herpes zoster. In childhood she had suffered from scarlet fever, morbilli, and varicella. Since the age of 40 years she had been treated with insulin for . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BUDAPEST

From the Isotopic Department and Metabolic Unit, and the Department of Medicine, János Hospital.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Dec 3, 1964; accepted Dec 26.

Reprint requests to János Hospital, XII, Diosárok ut 1, Budapest (Dr. Radó).

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