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Abducens Nerve Injury

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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.      Other names Traumatic Sixth-Nerve Palsy; Sixth Cranial Nerve Injury; Sixth Cranial Nerve Injuries; Injury, Sixth Cranial Nerve; Sixth-Nerve Trauma; Injury, Cranial Nerve VI; Cranial Nerve VI Injury; Abducens Nerve Trauma; Traumatic Sixth-Nerve Palsies; Traumatic Sixth Nerve Palsy; Traumatic Abducens Neuropathy; Traumatic Abducens Neuropathies; Traumas, Sixth-Nerve; Traumas, Abducens Nerve; Trauma, Sixth-Nerve; Trauma, Abducens Nerve; Sixth-Nerve Traumas; Sixth-Nerve Palsies, Traumatic; Sixth Nerve Trauma; Sixth Nerve Palsy, Traumatic

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