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 |