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Nervous System Diseases > Cranial Nerve Diseases > Abducens Nerve Diseases

Preferred term

Abducens Nerve Diseases  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Cranial Nerve VI Diseases
  • Sixth Cranial Nerve Diseases
  • Sixth Cranial Nerve Disorders
  • VIth Cranial Nerve Diseases

Scope note

  • Diseases of the sixth cranial (abducens) nerve or its nucleus in the pons. The nerve may be injured along its course in the pons, intracranially as it travels along the base of the brain, in the cavernous sinus, or at the level of superior orbital fissure or orbit. Dysfunction of the nerve causes lateral rectus muscle weakness, resulting in horizontal diplopia that is maximal when the affected eye is abducted and ESOTROPIA. Common conditions associated with nerve injury include INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; ISCHEMIA; and INFRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS.

History note

  • 2000

In other languages

  • loitontajahermon sairaudet

    Finnish

  • 6. aivohermon sairaudet
  • abducens-hermon sairaudet
  • abducens-hermon taudit
  • kuudennen aivohermon sairaudet
  • loitontajahermon taudit
  • n. abducensin sairaudet
  • nervus abducensin sairaudet
  • VI aivohermon sairaudet
  • Abducensnervsjukdomar

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D020434

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