Ramsay-Hunt Syndrome
I. What every physician needs to know. Ramsay-Hunt syndrome (RHS), first described in 1907, is the triad of acute unilateral facial nerve palsy with ipsilateral otalgia and an erythematous vesicular rash of the auricle or oral mucosa. It is caused by reactivation of latent varicella-zoster virus (VZV) involving the geniculate ganglion of 7th cranial nerve…