Post-total knee arthroplasty herpes zoster activation

Mantu Jain1, Prabhas Ranjan Tripathy2, Chitta Ranjan Mohanty3

  • 1Department of Orthopaedics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India.

BMJ Case Reports
|April 8, 2019
PubMed
Summary

Reactivation of varicella-zoster virus (VZV) can cause shingles, leading to persistent pain. This study reports a rare case of VZV infection following knee replacement surgery.