PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Annalan Mathew Dwight Navaratnam
AU  - Nan Ma
AU  - Maria Farrukh
AU  - Aza Abdulla
TI  - Chickenpox: an ageless disease
AID  - 10.1136/bcr-2017-222027
DP  - 2017 Dec 21
TA  - BMJ Case Reports
PG  - bcr-2017-222027
VI  - 2017
4099  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2017/bcr-2017-222027.short
4100  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2017/bcr-2017-222027.full
AB  - A 97-year-old woman presented with 4-day history of vesicular rash, initially at the feet but then spread up to the thighs bilaterally, abdomen and trunk. The initial differentials included bullous pemphigus and cellulitis by the emergency department. She was then managed as bullous pemphigus by the acute medical team and started on high-dose steroids, with no other differentials considered. When her care was taken over by the general medical team, varicella zoster virus (VZV) infection was suspected. After confirmation by the dermatology team regarding the clinical diagnosis and the positive VZV DNA swabs, she was started on acyclovir.