Ramsay Hunt syndrome, type I

Ramsay Hunt syndrome is a neurologic abnormality with two subtypes. 1-3 Ramsey Hunt syndrome type I is known as herpes zoster oticus, geniculate neuralgia, and nervus intermedius neuralgia. Type II syndrome is known as dyssynergia cerebellaris myoclonica; it is an autosomal-recessive, progressive, myoclonic epilepsy with ataxia secondary to mitochondrial encephalopathy.