A 72-year-old man complaining of burning pain on the right side of his chest was seen by his physician. On examination the patient indicated that the pain passed forward over the right sixth intercostal space from the posterior axillary line forward as far as the midline over the sternum. The physician noted that there were several watery blebs on the skin in the painful area.
-The following statements are correct except which?
A) This patient has herpes zoster.
B) A virus descends along the cutaneous nerves, causing dermatomal pain and the eruption of vesicles.
C) The sixth right intercostal nerve was involved.
D) The condition was confined to the anterior cutaneous branch of the sixth intercostal nerve.
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