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Clinical features

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The clinical features of Ramsay Hunt Syndrome in temporal sequence of presentation are:

  • otalgia - pain in the ear and the mastoid region - often with few signs on examination
  • a vesicular eruption involving the external ear
  • facial paralysis, deafness and vertigo
  • ipsilateral loss of taste in the anterior two-thirds of tongue

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