[Varicella-zoster infection with isolated cochleovestibular affectation (without facial palsy)].
Otological complications of Ramsay Hunt syndrome include facial paralysis, tinnitus, hearing loss, vertigo, dysgeusia, and skin eruption. The lower cranial nerves sometimes are affected by this neuritis. A case is reported of a man without immune-system impairment who had a cranial mononeuritis with unilateral involment of the VIII and VII cranial nerves after infection with varicella-zoster without herpetic lesions.
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Servicio de Otorrinolaringología, Hospital Universitario de Getafe, Madrid.
Monedero
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Teba
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Pérez Esteban
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Sanz
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