Ramsay Hunt syndrome with trochlear nerve involvement and EEG abnormalities: multicranial neuritis or encephalitis?

Autor: Alessandro Beronio, Massimo Del Sette, Cesare Capellini, Elisa Giorli, Elisabetta Traverso, Massimiliano Godani
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology. 56(4)
ISSN: 1873-5967
Popis: A 69-year-old woman was admitted to the emergency room ith vomit and vertigo since two days before. She was under treatent for hypertension, hypercholesterolemia and hyperuricemia. brain computed tomography was normal. At the admission to our department she had fever (38.8 ◦C). Neurological examination showed rotatory right-beat nystagmus and vertical diplopia on right and down gaze direction. She had no consciousness impairment. The following day she developed complete left facial palsy. At otorhinolaringoiatric examination herpetic vesicles around the left concha auricolae and the homolateral hard
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