Acute urinary retention and constipation precipitated by herpes zoster infection
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Herpes Zoster Infection Presenting with Urinary Retention and Constipation.
Herpes zoster is a sporadic disease that results from the reactivation of latent Varicella zoster virus infection (VZV) from the dorsal root ganglion. We report a case of herpes zoste of lumbosacral region presenting as acute retention of urine and constipation, an uncommon presentation.
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Corresponding author: Dae Hyun Jo, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Daejeon St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 520-2, Daeheung-dong, Jung-gu, Daejeon 301-723, Korea. Tel: 82-42-220-9114, Fax: 82-42-242-3500, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Com...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ Case Reports
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1757-790X
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2017-220068