Four Cases of Pediatric Ramsay Hunt Syndrome
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- TAKAYAMA Naohide
- Department of Pediatrics, Tokyo Metropolitan Komagome Hospital
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- TAKAYAMA Michiko
- Department of Virology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases
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- Other Title
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- 小児期Ramsay Hunt症候群の4例
- 臨床 小児期Ramsay Hunt症候群の4例
- リンショウ ショウニキ Ramsay Hunt ショウコウグン ノ 4レイ
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Abstract
Four cases of the Ramsay Hunt syndrome were admitted to our hospital during the two years from February 1997 to January 1999. Though one of the 4 patients had been immunized with varicella vaccine, the causative virus was not a vaccine strain but a wild-type strain. These patients were not suffering from underlying diseases. Because the number of pediatric zoster patient without underlying diseases who visited our clinic between 1981 and 1999 was 35 cases, the Ramsay Hunt syndrome turned out not to be extremely rare even among children having no underlying diseases. The prognosis of the Ramsay Hunt syndrome is assumed to be good if the treatment begins at the early stage. To begin the treatment at the early stage, it is necessary to confirm the diagnosis with virological examinations.
Journal
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- Kansenshogaku Zasshi
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Kansenshogaku Zasshi 76 (3), 216-219, 2002
The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases