Challenge: What's your diagnosis?
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
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Challenge: What's your diagnosis?
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This older patient (or unimmunized adolescent) presents with left-sided facial paralysis and ear pain. He complains that things taste and sound differently; he has a buzzing in his ear and everything's louder. He also has vertigo. Prior to the onset of the rash shown above, he noted burning pain, hyperesthesia, and pruritis.
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Herpesvirus reactivation-- Though, I'm tempted to say HSV despite the lack of vaccine indicated in the hint, if only because of the likelihood of temporal lobe encephalitis.
But, if pressed, I'd say Shingles, possibly with resulting trigeminal neuralgia.
Herpes zoster (again)?
yes - it is HSV! (again - sometimes i just have to review these disease manifestations :))
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This is Ramsay Hunt syndrome or herpes zoster oticus caused by VZV reactivation.
Sources: UpToDate; emedicine.medscape.com.
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