Figure 8. Neurovascular compression of the trigeminal nerve in a 63-year-old woman with severe right trigeminal neuralgia. 3D-FISP sequence reconstructed in the coronal plane. There is a small high signal intensity vessel in close contact with the right trigeminal nerve (small arrow). On the left side there is a vessel lateral to but not in contact with the trigeminal nerve (arrowhead).

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