Facial diplegia resembling bilateral Ramsay Hunt Syndrome

Simone Marziali; Eliseo Picchi; Francesca Di Giuliano; Antonio Pisani; Nicola Biagio Mercuri; Roberto Floris; Maria Albanese

doi:10.1016/j.jns.2017.03.011

Facial diplegia resembling bilateral Ramsay Hunt Syndrome

J Neurol Sci. 2017 May 15:376:109-111. doi: 10.1016/j.jns.2017.03.011. Epub 2017 Mar 9.

Authors

Simone Marziali¹, Eliseo Picchi², Francesca Di Giuliano³, Antonio Pisani⁴, Nicola Biagio Mercuri⁵, Roberto Floris⁶, Maria Albanese⁷

Affiliations

¹ University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Italy; Fondazione PTV Policlinico "Tor Vergata", Department of Diagnostic and Molecular Imaging, Interventional Radiology and Radiotherapy, Neuroradiology UOC, Viale Oxford 81, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: simonemarz@libero.it.
² University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Italy; Fondazione PTV Policlinico "Tor Vergata", Department of Diagnostic and Molecular Imaging, Interventional Radiology and Radiotherapy, Neuroradiology UOC, Viale Oxford 81, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: eliseo.picchi@hotmail.it.
³ University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Italy; Fondazione PTV Policlinico "Tor Vergata", Department of Diagnostic and Molecular Imaging, Interventional Radiology and Radiotherapy, Neuroradiology UOC, Viale Oxford 81, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: francescadigiuliano@msn.com.
⁴ University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Department of Systems Medicine, Italy; Fondazione PTV Policlinico "Tor Vergata", Department of Neurosciences, Neurology, UOC, Viale Oxford 81, Rome, Italy; Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: pisani@uniroma2.it.
⁵ University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Department of Systems Medicine, Italy; Fondazione PTV Policlinico "Tor Vergata", Department of Neurosciences, Neurology, UOC, Viale Oxford 81, Rome, Italy; Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: mercurin@med.uniroma2.it.
⁶ University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Italy; Fondazione PTV Policlinico "Tor Vergata", Department of Diagnostic and Molecular Imaging, Interventional Radiology and Radiotherapy, Neuroradiology UOC, Viale Oxford 81, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: roberto.floris@uniroma2.it.
⁷ University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Department of Systems Medicine, Italy; Fondazione PTV Policlinico "Tor Vergata", Department of Neurosciences, Neurology, UOC, Viale Oxford 81, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: maria.albanese@hotmail.it.

PMID: 28431592
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2017.03.011

No abstract available

Keywords: Cranial neuropathy; MR; Ramsay-Hunt syndrome; VZV.

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Brain / diagnostic imaging
Diagnosis, Differential
Facial Paralysis / diagnosis*
Facial Paralysis / drug therapy
Facial Paralysis / physiopathology
Female
Functional Laterality
Herpes Zoster Oticus / diagnosis
Humans
Young Adult