Virology Question and Answer Scheme (VIROQAS)Ramsay Hunt syndrome with trochlear nerve involvement and EEG abnormalities: Multicranial neuritis or encephalitis?
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Case presentation
A 69-year-old woman was admitted to the emergency room with vomit and vertigo since two days before. She was under treatment for hypertension, hypercholesterolemia and hyperuricemia. A 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
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