Hemidiaphragmatic paresis after cervical herpes zoster.
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Hemidiaphragmatic paresis after cervical herpes zoster.
Herpes zoster generally affects sensory nerves, but occasionally motor nerves also are affected,'2 so that flaccid muscle paresis develops in the segments corresponding to the dermatomes in which cutaneous lesions appear. The site of the lesion in the motor neurone is not clear, but the absence of electromyographic fasciculations and slow motor conduction velocity point to motor axon damage. Po...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 1982
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.37.11.870