The Ramsay Hunt syndrome is no longer a useful diagnostic category

Viewpoints on the Ramsay Hunt syndrome.

Viewpoints on the Ramsay Hunt syndrome. The Ramsay Hunt syndrome is a useful clinical entity

✍ C. D. Marsden; J. A. Obeso 📂 Article 📅 1989 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 499 KB

Recently, Berkovic et al. (1) criticized the concept of the Ramsay Hunt syndrome. In their excellent review of progressive myoclonus epilepsies, they concluded that the Ramsay Hunt syndrome "does not represent a specific disease, and its use should now be abandoned." They were led to this view by th