Year 2016 / Volume 108 / Number 10
Case Report
Gastric varicella: two cases in cancer patients

670-672

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.3925/2015

Violeta María Sastre Lozano, Pilar Martínez García, Carlos Sánchez Sánchez, María Torregrosa Lloret, Laura Sevilla Cáceres, Patricia Romero Cara, Senador Morán Sánchez,

Abstract
Gastric involvement with the varicella-zoster virus is an uncommon clinical condition where early suspicion and diagnosis are important to prevent the consequences deriving from its high morbidity and mortality, which in immunocompromised patients oscillate between 9% and 41% according to the various series. Two cases of gastric involvement with the varicella-zoster virus (VZV) in two patients with blood cancer are reported below. Gastric lesions are usually preceded by typical papulovesicular skin lesions. When gastric involvement is the first symptom of the disease its diagnosis and management may be delayed, which may entail severe consequences for immunocompromised patients. It is therefore that we suggest its inclusion in the algorithm for immunocompromised patients with abdominal pain and ulcer-like endoscopic lesions.
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Sastre Lozano V, Martínez García P, Sánchez Sánchez C, Torregrosa Lloret M, Sevilla Cáceres L, Romero Cara P, et all. Gastric varicella: two cases in cancer patients. 3925/2015


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Publication history

Received: 14/07/2015

Accepted: 18/08/2015

Online First: 18/02/2016

Published: 30/09/2016

Article revision time: 19 days

Article Online First time: 219 days

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