Neurovascular Conflicts of Cerebellopontine Angle: A Review of the Literature
Keywords:
Neurovascular conflict, Cerebellopontine angle, Glossopharyngeal neuralgia, Trigeminal neuralgia, Hemifacial spasm.Abstract
The pathology of the cistern of the cerebellopontine angle is primarily the disease of
the nervous and vascular structures that it contains and of the meninges that line it. It appears
by the Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN), Hemifacial spasm (HFS), and Glossopharyngeal Neuralgia
(GN). We have reviewed the anatomy, pathogenesis, diagnostics and therapy of neurovascular
conflicts of cerebellopontine angle. The clinical manifestations of the conflict vary according to
the affected nerve. The diagnosis is made on the basis of symptoms but need to be confirmed by
imaging. Now-a-days, high-fields Magnetic Resonance Imagings (MRIs) are the standard gold
diagnostic method but stay impervious in areas or countries that are less medically equipped.
The treatment of neurovascular conflicts of cerebellopontine angle is conservative or interventional.
The interventional acts constitute the only curative treatments.
