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To the Editor: In the Images in Clinical Medicine section (March 31 issue),¹ Rosencrance presents an excellent clinical photograph of herpes zoster involving the right trigeminal nerve. He mentions that the patient was treated with intravenous acyclovir, as well as trifluridine and sulfacetamide-prednisolone eyedrops. I am aware of no study supporting the use of trifluridine for the treatment of herpes zoster keratitis². Topical trifluridine is extremely expensive, causes side effects such as superficial punctate keratopathy and epithelial defects, and is indicated only for the treatment of external eye infections caused by herpes simplex virus. Although herpes zoster uveitis and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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