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Report of a Case

LEIGHTON JOHNSON, M.D.; BERNARD ZONDERMAN, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1948;48(1):1-8.

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THE PURPOSE of this paper is to present a severe case of herpes zoster oticus with complete paralysis of the facial nerve, involvement of both the vestibular and the cochlear branches of the eighth nerve and unusual findings in the cerebrospinal fluid. The patient was recently treated at the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals. The relevant literature will be briefly reviewed.

Herpes zoster has been known since ancient times. It was called zona by the Greeks¹ and was considered a cutaneous disease for centuries. Bright² (1831) and Henley² (1840), cited by Ebstein, first pointed out that herpes zoster was a cutaneous manifestation of a nerve disease involving the sensory portion of the spinal nerves. The first reported autopsy on a case of herpes zoster was that of von Barensprung,² in 1861, who demonstrated inflammatory lesions at the posterior root ganglions. That the disease could involve cranial nerves was demonstrated by many observers, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Professor of Otolaryngology, Boston University School of Medicine; Chief of Department of Otolaryngology, Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals; Instructor in Otolaryngology, Boston University School of Medicine; First Assistant Surgeon Department of Otolaryngology, Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals

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