title: Isolated anterior interosseous nerve palsy following herpes zoster infection: a case report and review of the literature.
abstract: A 64-year-old lady noticed weakness of her thumb within two weeks of having developed "shingles" causing vesicular lesions on her arm and hand. Clinical and neurophysiological testing confirmed a lesion of the anterior interosseous nerve. Although motor involvement after herpes zoster infection is recognised, this usually has a myotomal distribution; isolated involvement of a branch of a peripheral motor nerve has not previously been described.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics, Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, Derby.
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Nee
authors.forename: P G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Lunn
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006562:Herpes Zoster / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009046:Motor Neurons / Q000382:microbiology; D010243:Paralysis / Q000209:etiology*; D013933:Thumb / Q000294:innervation