Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “This persistent hypoesthesia suggests permanent nerve and ganglion damage,” said Denise de Freitas, MD, from ...

A 10-year-old male presents with a painful vesicular rash on his face and a red left eye. The onset was 3 days earlier, when he complained to his mother that his brother had hit him in the eye, which ...

A 26-year-old female presented to Kijabe Mission Hospital with a diffuse rash and dyspnea. The patient had been well until 5 days prior to admission when a pruritic rash began on her face, neck, and ...

The patient’s nodules were keloid scars due to herpes zoster. With age-related decrease in cell-mediated immunity, the varicella-zoster virus (VZV) that has been lying dormant in a dorsal root ...

Shingles is caused by reactivation of latent varicella zoster (VZ) virus. Most people in the UK are infected with VZ in childhood, resulting in chickenpox, an unpleasant but generally mild disease.

A dermatome is an area of skin that gets its sensation from a specific spinal nerve root. Spinal nerves exist in 31 pairs, one on each side of the spine. These nerves send signals for things like ...

Dermatomes are areas of skin that send signals to the brain through the spinal nerves. The dermatome system covers the entire body from the hands and fingers to the feet and toes. The part of a nerve ...