EyeRounds Online Atlas of Ophthalmology

Contributor:
William Charles Caccamise Sr,MD, Retired Clinical Asst Prof of Ophthal. U.of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry

Category: Systemic Disorders
Diagnosis: herpes zoster ophthalmicus with Hutchinson's sign

Image Comments:

The presence of a lesion on the tip of the nose during an attack of herpes zoster ophthalmicus has potentially ominous significance for the eye itself.

 

 

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