Wei Zhanqi, Weng Xisheng
Department of Orthopaedics, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Front Surg. 2023 May 5;10:1042482. doi: 10.3389/fsurg.2023.1042482. eCollection 2023.
An 88-year-old woman started complaining of severe pain at the right knee and above at three weeks after right total knee arthroplasty (TKA). The empirical treatment cannot effectively control the progress of pain. The lesion was eventually diagnosed to be due to herpes zoster (HZ). The finding of HZ was unexpected in this case, because HZ is extremely rare in patients after TKA.
一名88岁女性在右侧全膝关节置换术（TKA）三周后开始抱怨右膝及以上部位剧痛。经验性治疗无法有效控制疼痛进展。病变最终被诊断为带状疱疹（HZ）。在这种情况下发现HZ出乎意料，因为HZ在TKA术后患者中极为罕见。
