Neurology · Neurology / Neuro-otology; Infectious neurology
Ramsay Hunt syndrome
also: Herpes zoster oticus
VZV reactivation with facial palsy and ear vesicles.
- Specialty
- Neurology
- Subspecialty
- Neurology / Neuro-otology; Infectious neurology
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected; Female: affected equally; Children: yes, but less often than adults
- Gene(s) involved
- None recorded
- Alternative names & eponyms
- Herpes zoster oticus
Etiology & mechanism
VZV in the geniculate ganglion.
Gene(s) involved (0)
No gene recorded for this syndrome.
Symptoms & signs (5)
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Same gene(s)
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Shares symptoms with
2 shared
Cogan syndrome
hearing loss, vertigo
2 shared
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hearing loss, vertigo
2 shared
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hearing loss, vertigo
2 shared
Tumarkin otolithic crisis syndrome
hearing loss, vertigo
2 shared
Van Buchem syndrome
facial palsy, hearing loss
1 shared
Alport syndrome with diffuse leiomyomatosis
hearing loss
1 shared
Alström syndrome
hearing loss
1 shared
Bannwarth syndrome
facial palsy
1 shared
Barré–Liéou syndrome
vertigo
1 shared
Brainstem stroke syndrome
vertigo
Shares genes with
None.
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