Orbital disease in herpes zoster ophthalmicus.
Three cases of orbital inflammatory disease caused by herpes zoster are described. This extremely rare complication occurred between 5 days and 14 days following the skin eruption and slowly resolved with or without treatment. Biopsy of a chronic inflammatory lesion on the cheek of one patient demonstrated a sterile vasculitis and granulomatous liponecrosis, a process which may underlie the orbital disease in these patients.
Orbital and Adnexal Service, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK.
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Vardy
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Rose
D000368:Aged; D005218:Fat Necrosis / Q000150:complications; D006563:Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009916:Orbital Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014657:Vasculitis / Q000473:pathology