Malignancy risks after herpes zoster: Hospital-based matched cohort study

Eur J Intern Med. 2017 Oct:44:e13-e14. doi: 10.1016/j.ejim.2017.07.027. Epub 2017 Jul 19.

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, St. Luke's International Hospital, Tokyo, Japan; Center for Clinical Epidemiology, St. Luke's International Hospital, Tokyo, Japan; Fujita Health University, Toyoake, Japan. Electronic address: daikoba@luke.ac.jp.
² Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, St. Luke's International Hospital, Tokyo, Japan; Center for Clinical Epidemiology, St. Luke's International Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
³ Fujita Health University, Toyoake, Japan.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology for Community Health and Medicine, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
⁵ Department of Infectious disease, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan.

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Keywords: Herpes zoster; Japan; Malignancies; Risk factors.

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