[Post-Herpes Zoster calcinosis].
BACKGROUND
Cutaneous calcinosis, without any disturbance of phosphocalcic metabolism, secondary to circumscribed previous skin lesions are quite common. Those secondary to viral skin lesions are rare and worth of publication.


METHODS
A 73-year old female patient disclosed progressive calcinosis in the scar of a cervico-thoracic herpes zoster which occurred 20 years ago.


CONCLUSIONS
The occurrence of a secondary calcinosis in an old scar is common and non specific: the eliciting role of a previous herpes virus infection (VZV) may be discussed in the reported case and in few other cases reported in the literature (HSV, CMV)
Clinique Dermatologique, Faculté de Médecine de Pécs Hôpital Départemental de Nagykanizsa (Hongrie).
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Puskás
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Schneider
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Dull
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Zombai
D000368:Aged; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D002921:Cicatrix / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006562:Herpes Zoster / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D013997:Time Factors
Calcinose post-zostérienne.