title: Recurrent herpetic angular blepharitis in an adult.
abstract: A 36-year-old man had several episodes of left angular blepharoconjunctivitis associated with upper respiratory infections, herpes labialis, or emotional stress. The clinical diagnosis had always been a blepharitis of bacterial origin. During the last attack, cytologic examination of a scraping obtained from an eyelid pustule vesicle revealed multinucleated keratinocytes, diagnostic of a herpetic infection. Virologic studies proved that herpes simplex virus type 1 was the causal agent.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001762:Blepharitis / Q000209:etiology*; D003231:Conjunctivitis / Q000209:etiology; D005141:Eyelid Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D006561:Herpes Simplex / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012008:Recurrence