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JOURNAL OF VASCULAR AND INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY
Volume 13, Issue 2, Pages 209-210Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1016/S1051-0443(07)61941-1
Keywords
biopsies, complications; herpes zoster; liver, biopsy
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A patient developed reactivation of herpes zoster infection (shingles) after a routine liver biopsy. Reactivation of herpes is often related to trauma. This entity should be considered when patients report postbiopsy pain inappropriate to the procedure. If the typical rash of shingles develops, antiviral therapy should be considered.
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