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Hemidiaphragmatic paralysis caused by cervical herpes zoster
J J Soler1, M Perpiña, A Alfaro
1Hospital Universitario La Fe, Servicio de Neumología, Valencia, Spain.
Respiration; International Review of Thoracic Diseases
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
Although herpes zoster virus usually affects sensory nerves, it can also damage motoneurons. Injury to the phrenic nerve has been described previously, but only anecdotally. We report on a case of left hemidiaphragmatic paralysis with severe axonal degeneration secondary to cervical herpes zoster, and describe its clinical, radiological, pulmonary function and electromyographic evolution during an 18-month follow-up.