Its nucleus is in the caudal pons. The facial nerve courses dorsomedially and encircles the nucleus of the abducens (sixth) cranial nerve. After bending around the abducens nucleus, the facial ...

A 66-year-old man with right-hand dominance and a known history of hypertension and poorly controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus presented with a one-day history of abrupt-onset diplopia and right ...

also called the abducens nerve, starts in the pons region of your brainstem. It eventually enters your eye socket, where it controls the lateral rectus muscle. moving muscles used for facial ...

A left-abducens-nerve palsy was found ... pons and medulla revealed only hypoplasia of the right facial nucleus and paucity of fibers in the tract of the right facial nerve.

However, a new case report shows how symptoms of ocular MG (OMG) can vary, and on rare occasions appear as isolated abducens nerve palsy. This new report was published in Cureus. 1 The case ...

Background: Paralysis of abducens nerve is a very rare complication of lumbar puncture, which is a common procedure most often used for diagnostic and anesthetic purposes. Case Report: A 38-year ...

Benign abducens nerve palsy is rare in childhood. Diagnosis is made by exclusion, and the severe underlying pathologies have to be ruled out. The aim of our study was to present the largest single ...

[2] Each MLF carries information from the contralateral abducens nucleus to the ipsilateral medial ... investigation should exclude partial third nerve palsy and myasthenia gravis.