2006 ICD-9-CM Volume 1 Diagnosis Codes Home > Diseases Of The Nervous System And Sense Organs 320-389 > Disorders Of The Eye And Adnexa 360-379 > Strabismus And Other Disorders Of Binocular Eye Movements 378.* > 2006 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis 378.54 Sixth or abducens nerve palsy View the most recent version of ICD-9-CM 378.54 Diseases of the sixth cranial (abducens) nerve or its nucleus in the pons. The nerve may be injured along its course in the pons, intracranially as it travels along the base of the brain, in the cavernous sinus, or at the level of superior orbital fissure or orbit. Dysfunction of the nerve causes lateral rectus muscle weakness, resulting in horizontal diplopia that is maximal when the affected eye is abducted and ESOTROPIA. Common conditions associated with nerve injury include INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; ISCHEMIA; and INFRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS. 378.54 is a specific code that can be used to specify a diagnosis 378.54 contains 13 index entries View the ICD-9-CM Volume 1 378.* hierarchy  Index entries containing 378.54: Atrophy, atrophic nerve - see also Disorder, nerve abducens 378.54 cranial 352.9 sixth (abducens) 378.54 Compression cranial nerve 352.9 sixth 378.54 Disorder - see also Disease nerve 349.9 abducens NEC 378.54 cranial 352.9 sixth 378.54 Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory (with exudation) abducens (nerve) 378.54 Lesion(s) abducens nerve 378.54 cranial nerve 352.9 sixth 378.54 Neuritis (see also Neuralgia) 729.2 abducens (nerve) 378.54 cranial nerve - see also Disorder, nerve, cranial sixth or abducens 378.54 Paralysis, paralytic (complete) (incomplete) 344.9 abducens (nerve) 378.54 nerve - see also Disorder, nerve sixth or abducens 378.54 Strabismus (alternating) (congenital) (nonparalytic) 378.9 paralytic 378.50 sixth or abducens nerve 378.54