A Case of Ramsay Hunt’s Syndrome with Multiple Cranial Nerves Involvement

Kim, Dong Uk; Lee, Byung Don; Chang, Hyuck Soon; Kang, Ju Won

doi:10.35420/jcohns.1994.5.2.327

J Clin Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 1994; 5(2):327-331

pISSN: 1225-0244, eISSN: 2713-833X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35420/jcohns.1994.5.2.327

종설

다발성 뇌신경을 침범한 Ramsay Hunt’s Syndrome

김동욱¹, 이병돈¹, 장혁순¹, 강주원¹

A Case of Ramsay Hunt’s Syndrome with Multiple Cranial Nerves Involvement

Dong Uk Kim¹, Byung Don Lee¹, Hyuck Soon Chang¹, Ju Won Kang¹

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¹순천향대학병원 이비인후과학교실

¹Department of Otolaryngology, College of Medicine Soonchunhyang University, Seoul, Korea

© Copyright 1994 The Busan, Ulsan, Gyeoungnam Branch of Korean Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: May 31, 2020

ABSTRACT

A case of Ramsay Hunt’s syndrome which had otalgia, sore throat, hearing impairment, vesicular eruptions on ipsilateral external ear and ipsilateral facial palsy with ipsilateral vocal cord palsy, ipsilateral facial hypoesthesia was experienced.

The case was treated with steroid, Acyclovir^® and symptomatic therapy. This paper was attempted to report the case with a brief review of references.

Keywords: Ramsay Hunt’s syndrome; Multiple cranial nerves palsy