The function of the abducens nerve is to move your lateral rectus muscle. This lets your eye rotate away from the center of your body and look to the left or right. Sometimes called the abducent nerve ...

The abducens nerve is also known as the abducent or sixth cranial nerve (CN6). It controls the eye’s lateral rectus muscle, which moves the eye sideways, away from the nose. Where the pons (a band of ...

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 ...