Anatomical variations of the abducent nerve in humans.

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Anatomical variations of the abducent nerve in humans.

Archivio italiano di anatomia e di embriologia. Italian journal of anatomy and embryology - 1 Jan 2000

DiDio L J, Baptista C A, Teofilovski-Parapid G

Abstract excerpt

Anatomical variation of the nervus abducens in human encephali were found and described. They consisted of (1) an unusual trifurcation of the abducent nerve, limited to the extradural portion of the neural trunk (1.4% of the cases) and (2) the duplicity (11.1%) of the neural trunk, starting befor...

Topics

Abducens Nerve
Female
Genetic Variation
Humans
Male

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