The MRI volumetry of the posterior fossa and its substructures in trigeminal neuralgia: a validated study

Abstract

Our aim was to determine whether the anatomical configuration of the posterior fossa and its substructures might represent a predisposition factor for the occurrence of clinical neurovascular conflict in trigeminal neuralgia (TN).

Keywords

• Trigeminal neuralgia
• Neurovascular conflict
• Posterior fossa
• MRI volumetry
• Validation
• predicting neurovascular compression
• microvascular decompression
• pathogenesis
• pathology
• secondary
• conflict
• accurate
• disease