RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Herpes zoster in general practice
JF The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
JO J R Coll Gen Pract
FD British Journal of General Practice
SP 29
OP 32
VO 25
IS 150
A1 Ross, Constance A. C.
A1 Brown, W. K.
A1 Clarke, Alison
A1 Caldwell, W. F.
A1 Gordon, Elsie R.
A1 Harvey, Joan
A1 McAlister, Alison M. T.
A1 McGlone, J.
A1 Prentice, R. T. W.
A1 Thorburn, W.
A1 Tobias, C.
YR 1975
UL http://bjgp.org/content/25/150/29.abstract
AB Eighty-seven patients with the clinical diagnosis of herpes zoster were seen during a one-year period in eight general practices in Glasgow, the rate per 1,000 practice population being approximately 2·4. Of these, 78 (90 per cent) had serological evidence of active infection with herpes zoster. The anatomical location of the skin eruption was most common in the areas of the fifth cranial nerve, middle and lower trunk and thigh. A possible reactivating agent (trauma four, steroids two, irradiation one) was found in only seven patients. The illness as assessed by systemic upset and dissemination of lesions was generally not severe. Post-herpetic neuralgia was the most troublesome complication, found in 44 per cent of 64 patients revisisted 3-18 months after the acute illness.