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IHS Diagnosis ICD-10
13.15.2 Post-herpetic neuralgia [B02.2] G44.847  

Description:

Facial pain persisting or recurring ≥3 months after the onset of herpes zoster.

Diagnostic criteria:

  1. Head or facial pain in the distribution of a nerve or nerve division
  2. Herpetic eruption in the territory of the same nerve
  3. Pain preceded herpetic eruption by <7 days
  4. Pain persists after 3 months

Comment:

Post-herpetic neuralgia is more often a sequel of herpes zoster as age advances, afflicting 50% of patients contracting zoster over the age of 60 years. Hypaesthesia or hyperalgesia and/or allodynia are usually present in the territory involved.