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Case Reports
. 2012 Feb 21;184(3):E202.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.111481. Epub 2011 Dec 5.

Postherpetic pseudohernia

Chih-Tsung Hung  1 , Wei-Ming Wang
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Case Reports

Postherpetic pseudohernia

Chih-Tsung Hung et al. CMAJ. .
No abstract available

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Figure 1:
Figure 1:
(A) A reducible, painless hernia-like bulge, measuring 15 × 10 cm, two weeks after the onset of herpes zoster in an 80-year-old man. (B) Complete resolution of the abdominal bulge after 10 weeks
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