Clinical characteristics of herpes zoster laryngitis
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Clinical characteristics of herpes zoster laryngitis Jong‑Min Park1 · Seong Eun Kim2 · Hyung Chae Yang1 Received: 16 February 2020 / Accepted: 19 May 2020 © Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Introduction Herpes zoster laryngitis (HZL) is a recently recognized rare disease, easily mistaken for common viral laryngopharyngitis. There are only a few case reports in the English literature. No study has evaluated the clinical characteristics of HZL. In this study, we analyzed the clinical characteristics of HZL and compared them to those of Ramsay Hunt syndrome (RHS). Materials and methods Seventy-three patients who were initially diagnosed with HZL or RHS were enrolled in this study. Their medical records, including laryngoscopic findings, were analyzed retrospectively. The demographic factors, cranial nerve involvement, and recovery rate of both groups were evaluated. Results Sixty patients in the non-HZL group and 13 patients in the HZL group were analyzed. Five more patients in the non-HZL group were newly identified with HZL during the retrospective chart review. The mean age of the patients in the HZL group was higher than that of the non-HZL group (p = 0.016). The prevalence of hypertension was higher in the HZL group (p = 0.012). Patients with multiple cranial nerve involvement were more common in the HZL group (p
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