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Ramsay Hunt syndrome
(ram“ze-hunt)
herpes zoster involving the facial and vestibulocochlear nerves with ipsilateral facial paralysis, usually transitory, and herpetic vesicles
of the external ear or tympanic membrane; it may or may not be associated with tinnitus, vertigo, and hearing disorders. Called
also herpes zoster oticus and geniculate or Hunt neuralgia.
juvenile paralysis agitans.

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