Table 2 Entities involving Meckel’s cave
From: Neuroimaging of Meckel’s cave in normal and disease conditions
Developmental | - Arachnoid cyst - Meckel’s cave encephalocele | |
Vascular | - Persistent trigeminal artery - Vascular loop - trigeminal AVM | |
Inflammatory | - Sarcoidosis - Herpes simplex virus - Tuberculosis | |
Neoplastic | Benign | - Schwannomas - Meningiomas |
Malignant | - CSF spread of primary CNS malignancies - Lymphoma - Perineural spread | |
Miscellaneous | Non-intrinsic lesions of Meckel’s cave that may compress of invade Meckel’s cave | - Petrous apex mucocele - Pituitary macroadenoma |