Turkish Archives of Otorhinolaryngology (Sep 2012)

A case with Herpes Zoster Oticus involving multipl cranial nerves

  • Alper Yenigün,
  • M. Fatih Evcimik,
  • H. Deniz Tansuker,
  • Ö. Faruk Çalım

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5152/tao.2012.16
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 50, no. 3
pp. 54 – 56

Abstract

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Herpes Zoster Oticus described a virus caused by facial nerve paralysis associated with herpetic eruption of the pinna and suggested that it resulted from a geniculate ganglionitis. However, this condition represents a polycranial neuronitis and not simply a geniculate ganglionitis. We here present a Herpes Zoster Oticus case with multiple cranial nerves involvement and discussed with literature.

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