| Title |
Neuroimaging of Meckel’s cave in normal and disease conditions
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Insights into Imaging, April 2018
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| DOI | 10.1007/s13244-018-0604-7 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Ajay Malhotra, Long Tu, Vivek B. Kalra, Xiao Wu, Ali Mian, Rajiv Mangla, Elias Michaelides, Pina Sanelli, Dheeraj Gandhi |
| Abstract |
Meckel's cave is a dural recess in the posteromedial portion of the middle cranial fossa that acts as a conduit for the trigeminal nerve between the prepontine cistern and the cavernous sinus, and houses the Gasserian ganglion and proximal rootlets of the trigeminal nerve. It serves as a major pathway in perineural spread of pathologies such as head and neck neoplasms, automatically upstaging tumours, and is a key structure to assess in cases of trigeminal neuralgia. The purpose of this pictorial review is threefold: (1) to review the normal anatomy of Meckel's cave; (2) to describe imaging findings that identify disease involving Meckel's cave; (3) to present case examples of trigeminal and non-trigeminal processes affecting Meckel's cave. • Meckel's cave contains the trigeminal nerve ganglion and rootlets between the prepontine cistern and cavernous sinus. • Assessment is essential for perineural spread of disease and trigeminal neuralgia. • Key imaging: neural enhancement, enlargement, perineural fat/CSF effacement and skull base foraminal changes. |
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