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Herpes Zoster

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = An acute infectious, usually self-limited, disease believed to represent activation of latent varicella-zoster virus ( HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN) in those who have been rendered partially immune after a previous attack of CHICKENPOX. It involves the SENSORY GANGLIA and their areas of innervation and is characterized by severe neuralgic pain along the distribution of the affected nerve and crops of clustered vesicles over the area. ,Created For = LHSA-Dott,Use For = Shingles

Found in 102 Collections and/or Records:

PR1.1672, 1939-1944

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.1672
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 66 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: facial pain; trigeminal neuralgia; and shingles. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1939-1944

PR1.1728, 1939

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.1728
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 67 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: facial pain; head injury; herpes zoster; and trigeminal neuralgia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1939

PR1.1748, 1939

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.1748
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence, charts, black and white photographs and notes relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 71 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: cervical shingles; oedema of hands and feet; post herpetic neuralgia; and cardiac decompostion. Surgical treatment given.

Dates: 1939

PR1.1840, 1940

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.1840
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 79 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: herpes zister; and facial pain. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1940

PR2.1053, 1942

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1053
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 64 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: shingles; facial pain; and post-herpetic pain. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1942

PR2.1775, 1943

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1775
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 80 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: post-herpetic pain; back pain; and shingles. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1943

PR2.1951, 1943

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1951
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothiansaged 59 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: post-herpetic intercostal neuralgia; deafness; and herpes zoster. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1943

PR2.2588, 1944

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.2588
Scope and Contents

Chart and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 25 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: herpes zoster; and disseminated sclerosis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1944

PR2.2901, 1948

 Item
Identifier: LHB41 CC/2/PR2.2901
Scope and Contents Case summary relating to male labourer, rubber mill from north Edinburgh and Leith aged 43 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: cough with sputum, shingles. Family history of tuberculosis. No treatment...
Dates: 1948

PR2.2913, 1944

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.2913
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and chart relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 66 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: post-herpetic pain; and shingles. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1944