RT Book, Section
A1 Usatine, Richard P.
A1 Smith, Mindy A.
A1 Chumley, Heidi S.
A1 Mayeaux, E.J.
SR Print(0)
ID 57677708
T1 Chapter 124. Zoster
T2 The Color Atlas of Family Medicine, 2e
YR 2013
FD 2013
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-176964-8
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=57677708
RD 2024/04/19
AB A  14-year-old  boy  presents  with  deep  burning  pain  and  a  vesicular  eruption  in  a  band  starting  at  the  left  chest  and  ending  just  across  the  midline  of  the  back  (Figure  124-1).  The  varicella-zoster  virus  (VZV)  leaves  the  dorsal  root  ganglion  to  travel  down  the  spinal  nerves  to  the  cutaneous  nerves  of  the  skin.  The  vesicles  do  cross  the  midline  by  a  few  centimeters  because  the  posterior  primary  ramus  of  the  spinal  nerve  includes  a  small  cutaneous  medial  branch  that  reaches  across  the  midline.1  The  boy  was  treated  with  analgesics  and  an  antiviral  medication.  The  zoster  healed  with  scarring.