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Table 1 Trigeminal and non-trigeminal entities involving Meckel’s cave

From: Neuroimaging of Meckel’s cave in normal and disease conditions

Trigeminal

Common

- Perineural spread of cancers

Uncommon

- Nerve sheath tumours, CIDP

- Infection - Herpes

Non-trigeminal

Common

- Meningioma

- Leptomeningeal metastasis

Uncommon

- Vascular - Persistent trigeminal artery, vascular loops

- Lymphoma

- Sarcoid

- Pituitary macroadenoma

- Petrous mucocele/cephalocele

- Cholesterol granuloma/cholesteatoma/epidermoid

- Chondroid lesions/chordoma

- ICA aneurysms

- Tolosa-Hunt