The statistical survey on 148 patients with herpes zoster v:as made. Among 148 patients, 78 were treated with sublesional injection of predinisolone-procaine for severe neuralgic pain.
1) The incidence of herpes zoster was increasing with age, reaching it´s height at age of 41-60 group and declining thereafter (Fig. 1).
2) The ratio of severe neuralgic pain of herpes zoster to the total incidence of every age groups was increasing with age, being 23.5% in the youngest age group under 10 and 85.7% in the eldest age group between 7180 (Table 1).
3) The ratio of zoster pectoralis to the total incidence was 7070 and a case of generalized herpes zoster associated with lymphocytic leukemia was observed.
4) 78 cases of herpes zoster suffering from the severe neuralgic pain were treated with, sublesional injection of predinisolone-procaine. The effect was excellent, shortening it´s course and relieving pain.
There were so complications of hematogenous dissemination, skin infection and atrophy after the injection, except one case of hematogenous dissemination in lymphocytic leukemia.
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