A 15-Year-Old Boy With Facial Palsy and Progressive Hearing Loss

Abstract

A 15-year-old previously healthy African American male developed peripheral facial palsy over the course of 10 days. His primary care physician prescribed steroids and acyclovir to which he initially showed improvement, which lasted for about a month. After the facial palsy was resolved, he started complaining of unilateral, intermittent headaches and progressive right-sided hearing loss that worsened over a month associated to dizziness. He was taken to the emergency department.