Çocukluk döneminde herpes zoster

Herpes zoster derinin dermatomal dağılım gösteren viral bir enfeksiyonudur. Hastalık çocuklarda nadir görülür ve erişkin dönemden klinik bulguları farklılık gösterir. Çocuklarda hastalık sıklıkla daha iyi seyirlidir ve en sık torasik dermatomları tutar. Herpes zoster lezyonları sırasında ve öncesinde ağrı ve postherpetik nevralji pediyatrik hastalarda nadiren bulunur. Erişkinlerdeki bulguların aksine herpes zoster çocuklarda ağrısız ancak kaşıntılı bir durumdur. Bu yayında, nadir görülmesi nedeniyle, dört herpes zosterli çocuk olgu sunularak hastalığın çocukluk döneminde karakteristik klinik özellikleri hatırlatılmak istenmiştir.

Herpes zoster ın chilhood

Herpes Zoster is a cutaneous viral infection of the skin that presents in a dermatomal distribution. It is rare to see herpes zoster in children and it differs from the elderly according to clinical findings. Children with herpes zoster have a mild course of the disease and the disease mainly affects the thoracic dermatomes. Pain before and during the presence of herpes zoster lesions and postherpeutic neuralgia is rarely found in pediatric patients. In contrast to the findings in adults, herpes zoster is a painless but a prurituc conditon in children. In this article because of its rare occurence, four cases of herpes zoster is presented in order to emphasize the characteristic clinical features of the disease during childhood.

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