title: Isolated sixth cranial nerve aplasia visualized with Fast Imaging Employing Steady-State Acquisition (FIESTA) MRI.
abstract: An otherwise healthy 12-month-old girl presented for evaluation of reduced abduction of the left eye detected at 6 months of age. The remainder of the examination was unremarkable. A special MRI sequence-fast imaging employing steady-state acquisition (FIESTA)-visualized the right but not the left sixth nerve cisternal segment. This is the first reported use of the MRI FIESTA sequence to diagnose aplasia of the sixth cranial nerve.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.
authors.forename: Svetlana A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Pilyugina
authors.forename: Nancy J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Fischbein
authors.forename: Y Joyce
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Liao
authors.forename: Timothy J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: McCulley
mesh_terms: D000010:Abducens Nerve / Q000473:pathology*; D020434:Abducens Nerve Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging