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Figure 1. Confluent vesicular lesions of herpes zoster in consecutive dermatomes are visible in two distinct locations in a 20-year-old man with miliary tuberculosis. The patient was being treated with four antitubercular drugs; he also received prednisolone (1 mg per kilogram of body weight per day) because meningeal involvement was suspected. The lesions, accompanied by severe pain, appeared 4 weeks after therapy was begun and healed within 10 days after prednisolone was discontinued. Except for the prednisolone, the patient had no known cause of immunosuppression. He was seronegative for the human immunodeficiency virus. The miliary tuberculosis was cured by . . . [Full Text of this Article] |
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