purpose: to determine the distribution of oculomotor, abducens, and trochlear nerve palsies in diabetic patients with ocular nerve palsy. methods: this study was performed on all diabetic patients who referred to ophthalmology and neurology clinics at yazd medical science university because of ocular palsy from march 2004 to october 2005. signs and symptoms of the disorder were evaluated. resul...

BACKGROUND Bilateral and isolated abducens nerve palsy is a rare initial presentation after aneurysms rupture. Several possible mechanisms including intracranial hypertension have been purposed. To date, there have been no reports with objective measurements to demonstrate the relationship between intracranial pressure and isolated abducens palsy in the setting of acute subarachnoid hemorrhage ...

Unilateral abducens nerve palsy with periodic recurrences is a well-recognised finding in children, but is rare in adults. The underlying pathophysiological mechanism is unknown. Vascular compression of the nerve is suspected but never demonstrated. We describe an adult patient with, altogether, 11 periods of unilateral right-sided abducens palsy and arterial contact at the root exit zone of th...

Polycythemia vera (PV) is a myeloproliferative disorder associated with neurologic sequelae. The most severe neurologic processes affecting patients with PV are thrombotic and hemorrhagic strokes. Few cases published in the medical literature describe developments of other neurologic symptoms, including papilledema, oculomotor nerve palsy, one-and-a-half syndrome, and trochlear nerve syndrome, ...

Traumatic injuries of the abducens nerve as a consequence of facial and/or head trauma occur with or without associated cervical or skull base fracture. This is the first report on unilateral avulsion of the abducens nerve in a 29-year-old man with severe right facial trauma. In addition, he exhibited mild left facial palsy, and moderate left hearing disturbance. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI...

VI nerve palsy cannot be explained by this finding alone. It is important to note that all the cases reported so far of KD complicated with VI nerve palsy have presented after IVIG infusion. Of note is one previous case of abducens nerve palsy following IVIG administration reported in a patient without KD. Wright et al. describe a 42-year-old female who received IVIG after renal transplantation...

Abducens palsy (ie, sixth nerve palsy) is the most common single extraocular muscle palsy. The primary symptom is double vision. The treatment goal is to correct the underlying cause. If no cause is identified or the palsy is related to a well-managed chronic disease, treatment consists of patching one eye or applying a temporary prism. We report a patient whose abducens palsy resolved with fou...

Abstract Sinonasal non-intestinal-type adenocarcinoma is a rare malignancy, with limited large-scale studies available in the medical literature. We present case report of 60-year-old male patient sinonasal adenocarcinoma, isolate lagophthalmos and abducens nerve palsy, who had been exposed for 30 years to hard wood dust.

conclusion prompt diagnosis and treatment of isolated sphenoidal sinusitis is of utmost importance since it has noncharacteristic manifestations. noninvasive fungal sphenoidal sinusitis is best treated with sphenoidotomy. it seemed that abducens nerve palsy was associated with total sinus obstruction since patient condition improved promptly following the sphenoidotomy. background fungal sinusi...

A 55-year-old woman presented with diplopia following painful skin eruptions on the right upper extremity. On presentation, she was found to have 35 prism diopters of esotropia and an abduction limitation in the left eye. Two weeks later, she developed blepharoptosis and anisocoria with a smaller pupil in the right eye, which increased in the darkness. Cerebrospinal fluid analysis showed pleocy...