[Clinical picture and treatment of herpes zoster in children].

The symptoms and the course of herpes zoster are analyzed in 85 children aged 5 months to 15 years. Many systems of the body were shown to be involved in the process of the disease which is characteristic of neuroviral infections. The authors postulate the etiologic unity of chicken pox and herpes zoster as two clinical forms of the same epidemic process. The questions of treatment are outlined.