Isolated bilateral abducens nerve palsy associated with traumatic prepontine hematoma
Michael J Schneck1, Rebecca Smith, Mark Moster
1Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL 60153, USA. mschneck@lumc.edu
Seminars in Ophthalmology
|March 17, 2007
Abstract:
We describe a 15-year-old boy who developed isolated bilateral abducens nerve palsies immediately following a motor vehicle accident and who was found to have a pre-pontine extra-axial hematoma. We review the literature on isolated bilateral traumatic abducens palsies and discuss the alternate mechanisms for this injury.
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