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    Sixth nerve palsy, or abducens nerve palsy, is a disorder associated with dysfunction of cranial nerve VI (the abducens nerve), which is responsible for...
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    The abducens nerve or abducent nerve, also known as the sixth cranial nerve, cranial nerve VI, or simply CN VI, is a cranial nerve in humans and various...
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    Oculomotor nerve palsy or oculomotor neuropathy is an eye condition resulting from damage to the third cranial nerve or a branch thereof. As the name...
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    Fourth nerve palsy - Trochlear nerve (IV) Sixth nerve palsy - Abducens nerve (VI) Other Trigeminal neuralgia - Trigeminal nerve (V) Facial nerve paralysis...
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    Fourth cranial nerve palsy or trochlear nerve palsy, is a condition affecting cranial nerve 4 (IV), the trochlear nerve, which is one of the cranial nerves...
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    the abducens nerve (sixth nerve) is involved. This nerve supplies the muscle that pulls the eye outward. Those with sixth nerve palsy therefore experience...
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    orbit. A sixth nerve palsy, also known as abducens nerve palsy, is a neurological defect that results from a damaged or impaired abducens nerve. This damage...
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    The vagus nerve (/ˈveɪ.ɡəs/), also known as the tenth cranial nerve, cranial nerve X, or simply CN X, is a cranial nerve that carries sensory fibers that...
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    The facial nerve, also known as the seventh cranial nerve, cranial nerve VII, or simply CN VII, is a cranial nerve that emerges from the pons of the brainstem...
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    Other names for fourth nerve palsy include superior oblique palsy and trochlear nerve palsy. When looking to the right/left the nerve/muscle is not strong...
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    slightly inward. Sixth nerve palsy causes the associated eye to deviate inward and has many causes due to the relatively long path of the nerve. Increased cranial...
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    musculocutaneous nerve); the brachioradialis (through the radial nerve); and the deltoid (through the axillary nerve). The effect is called "Erb's palsy". Typically...
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    the skull. Esotropia (convergent strabismus) may also be caused by sixth nerve palsy, which causes weakness or paralysis of the lateral rectus muscle....
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    pupil size may be symptoms if related pressure causes a third and/or sixth nerve palsy. The causes of meningiomas are not well understood. Most cases are...
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  • neuropathy include distal symmetric polyneuropathy; third, fourth, or sixth cranial nerve palsy; mononeuropathy; mononeuropathy multiplex; diabetic amyotrophy;...
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    innervated by this nerve. The recurrent laryngeal nerves are the nerves of the sixth pharyngeal arch. The existence of the recurrent laryngeal nerve was first...
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  • not match a particular set of cranial nerve palsies (oculomotor nerve palsy, fourth nerve palsy, sixth nerve palsy). Initially, imaging studies are often...
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    secondary to erosion into superior orbital fissure and due to third and sixth nerve palsy. Proptosis when having intraorbital extension. Rarely anosmia, recurrent...
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  • Dorello's canal, is named after the anatomist Wenzel Leopold Gruber. Sixth nerve palsy Ezer, Haim; Banerjee, Anirban Deep; Thakur, Jai Deep; Nanda, Anil...
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  • pancreas Situs inversus viscerum-cardiopathy Situs inversus, X linked Sixth nerve palsy Sjögren–Larsson syndrome Sjögren's syndrome Skandaitis Skeletal dysplasia...
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    cranial nerve palsies (III, IV, V, VI). Sixth nerve palsy is the most common. Sensory deficits of the ophthalmic and maxillary branch of the fifth nerve are...
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    Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is a late-onset neurodegenerative disease involving the gradual deterioration and death of specific volumes of the...
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  • gaze palsy cannot move either eye past the midline in a single direction. The eyes of a patient with pontine lesions involving the sixth nerve nucleus...
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    signals of a third-nerve palsy resulting from a cerebral aneurysm that is otherwise asymptomatic, a condition known as oculomotor nerve palsy. Ingestion of...
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    Trapezius (section Palsy)
    multiple causes of trapezius dysfunction. Trapezius palsy, due to damage of the spinal accessory nerve, is characterized by difficulty with arm adduction...
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  • shortens, so that, when the sixth nerve paresis subsides, alignment is improved. The toxin is also useful in other cranial nerve palsies affecting eye muscles...
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    Eye movement (redirect from Ocular nerve)
    Congenital fourth nerve palsy Duane syndrome Internuclear ophthalmoplegia Nystagmus Ophthalmoparesis Opsoclonus Sixth (abducent) nerve palsy The following...
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    medulla oblongata. In modern clinical usage, the word bulbar (as in bulbar palsy) is retained for terms that relate to the medulla oblongata, particularly...
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  • Optic nerve hypoplasia (ONH) is a medical condition arising from the underdevelopment of the optic nerve(s). This condition is the most common congenital...
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    Anisocoria (category Oculomotor nerve)
    and sensitivity of pupil to a weak solution of pilocarpine. Oculomotor nerve palsy: Ischemia, intracranial aneurysm, demyelinating diseases (e.g., multiple...
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