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Abducens Nerve Injury  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • Traumatic injury to the abducens, or sixth, cranial nerve. Injury to this nerve results in lateral rectus muscle weakness or paralysis. The nerve may be damaged by closed or penetrating CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA or by facial trauma involving the orbit.

Entry terms

  • Abducens Nerve Trauma
  • Abducens Neuropathy, Traumatic
  • Cranial Nerve VI Injury
  • Injury, Cranial Nerve VI
  • Injury, Sixth Cranial Nerve
  • Sixth Cranial Nerve Injuries
  • Sixth Cranial Nerve Injury
  • Sixth-Nerve Palsy, Traumatic
  • Sixth-Nerve Trauma
  • Traumatic Sixth-Nerve Palsy

In other languages

  • French

  • Blessure du nerf abducens
  • Lésion traumatique de la 6ème paire crânienne
  • Lésion traumatique de la sixième paire crânienne
  • Lésion traumatique de la VIème paire crânienne
  • Lésion traumatique du nerf moteur oculaire externe
  • Traumatisme de la 6ème paire crânienne
  • Traumatisme de la sixième paire crânienne
  • Traumatisme de la VIème paire crânienne
  • Traumatisme du nerf abducens

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