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MRI of Cranial Nerve Enhancement

¹ Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, 101 The City Dr., Rte. 140, Orange, CA 92868.
² Department of Radiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.

OBJECTIVE. In this pictorial essay, we review the MR appearance of cranial nerve enhancement in a variety of entities including neoplastic, infectious, and idiopathic diseases.

CONCLUSION. MRI with contrast enhancement is a valuable tool for detecting and characterizing disease of the cranial nerves. Abnormal cranial nerve enhancement on MRI may sometimes be the first or only indication of an underlying disease process.

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