Table 2.
Top 10 Concepts Related to “Shingles” from 3 Sources
| Query Term = Shingles | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weight of the semantic relationship with the top 10 concepts from the medical vocabularies (Methathesaurus Relationship table, MRREL) | Frequency of co-occurrence with the top 10 concepts from medical literature (Methathesaurus Co-occurrence table, MRCOC) | Frequency of co-occurrence of the top 10 concepts derived from query log data (QRYLOG table) | |||
| Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus | 12 | Varicella | 237 | Pregnancy | 36 |
| Ramsey-Hunt Syndrome | 11 | Neuralgia | 222 | Itching | 15 |
| Herpes Simplex | 9 | Chicken Pox | 174 | Scabies | 15 |
| Varicella Encephalitis | 9 | Antiviral | 173 | Hives | 13 |
| Chicken Pox | 8 | Acyclovir | 122 | Integumentary System | 12 |
| Herpes Infection | 8 | Herpes Simplex | 60 | Small Pox | 12 |
| Disseminated Zoster | 7 | Pain | 51 | Viral | 12 |
| Herpes Zoster with Meningitis | 7 | Skin Diseases, Viral | 48 | Psoriasis | 11 |
| Zoster without Complications | 7 | Varicella Vaccine | 46 | Poison Ivy | 11 |
| Herpes Zoster Iridocyclitis | 6 | AIDS | 40 | Virus | 10 |
There are many more results in each of these lists, but only the top 10 are shown here for brevity's sake.