6th nerve palsy / diplopia / INO

HIGH-YIELD Appears 7×

Teaching point

Horizontal diplopia worse on lateral gaze with failure to abduct -> CN VI palsy (false-localising sign in raised ICP). Failure to ADDUCT one eye with nystagmus of the abducting eye -> internuclear ophthalmoplegia (MS).

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