[Varicella-zoster infection with isolated cochleovestibular affectation (without facial palsy)].

Otological complications of Ramsay Hunt syndrome include facial paralysis, tinnitus, hearing loss, vertigo, dysgeusia, and skin eruption. The lower cranial nerves sometimes are affected by this neuritis. A case is reported of a man without immune-system impairment who had a cranial mononeuritis with unilateral involment of the VIII and VII cranial nerves after infection with varicella-zoster without herpetic lesions.