[Ramsay Hunt syndrome--a case study]. / Zespól Ramsaya Hunta--opis przypadku.

In this work we present a patient, aged 40 with Ramsay Hunt syndrome, who was treated at the Department of Infectious Disease, Medical Academy in Lublin (Poland). The diagnosis of the disease was based on the anamnesis concerning epidemiology of the disease, the course and three major symptoms: facial paralysis, neuralgia, herpetic eruption in the mouth and on the ear. The combined treatment with antiviral drugs and corticosteroids was partially successful and did not resolve the seventh nerve palsy.