The Isolated Abducens Nerve Palsy Occured After Postviral Infection in A Diabetic Patient

Isolated paralysis of the sixth cranial nerve may occur in pons lesions associated with various etiologies, in cases of increased intracranial pressure, in intracavernous lesions, after vaccination such as tetanus and diphtheria, in shingles-like viral diseases, and in the presence of trauma, malignancy and diabetes (1). Shingles is a disease that can be seen sporadically in cases in which the balance of the organism resistance is impaired against the organism due to the latent virus in the dorsal root ganglia of patients having had primary disease. Herpes zoster (HZ) first causes pain and paresthesia in the dermatoma that it has affected, then skin rash occurs.