Abstract
We herein report the case of a patient with dysphagia due to lower cranial neuropathy, which was caused by herpes zoster virus infection. Dysphagia from vagus nerve paralysis (which occurred due to left palatal paralysis), the curtain sign, muscular paralysis of the left pharynx, and the laterality of pharynx clearance were confirmed at the time of the patient's first medical examination. Ingestion was enabled early due to an improvement in the function of the pharyngeal compressor muscles； however, the patient's palatal paralysis was still present and unilateral vocal cord paralysis was observed at a medical examination that was performed 30 days after the patient's initial presentation.
