Vijay Atul, Dalela Gaurav
Associate Professor and HOD, Department of Skin & VD, Jhalawar Medical College and Hospital , Jhalawar, Rajasthan, India .
Associate Professor and HOD, Department of Microbiology, RUHS College of Medical Sciences , Jaipur, Rajasthan, India .
J Clin Diagn Res. 2015 Dec;9(12):WR01-3. doi: 10.7860/JCDR/2015/15728.6957. Epub 2015 Dec 1.
Herpes Zoster is a common viral disorder, occurs due to reactivation of latent Varicella Zoster Virus (VZV) usually in adults or elderly patients, usually confined to a single dermatome. Herpes zoster duplex is a rare but well established entity which is simultaneous, occurring of herpes zoster at two different non contiguous dermatomes, can be unilateralis or bilateralis. Here we are reporting two cases of herpes zoster duplex bilateralis, in case-1 lesions occurs in two different distant dermatomes while in case-2 it appeared in a single dermatome but both sides were involved. Both the patients were healthy immuno-competent male.
带状疱疹是一种常见的病毒性疾病，通常由潜伏的水痘-带状疱疹病毒（VZV）在成人或老年患者中重新激活引起，通常局限于单个皮节。双侧带状疱疹是一种罕见但已被充分认识的疾病，即带状疱疹同时出现在两个不同的非连续皮节，可为单侧或双侧。在此，我们报告两例双侧带状疱疹病例，病例1的皮损出现在两个不同的远隔皮节，而病例2出现在单个皮节但双侧均受累。两名患者均为健康的免疫功能正常男性。
