Upcoming Events
Log In
Pricing
Free Trial

The Facial Nerve – Cranial Nerve VII

HIDE
PrevNext

0:00

Dr. P here talking about the 7th nerve,

0:03

an important one.

0:05

It travels with two other nerves.

0:07

The 6th nerve right above it

0:09

comes out of the pontomedullary sulcus

0:11

and has an antero-superolateral course.

0:15

It's a little distanced away from the 7th nerve,

0:18

which has a more lateral orientation.

0:21

But this portion of the nerve is intramedullary.

0:23

And we're going to talk,

0:25

in the next vignette,

0:26

about the true origin of the 7th nerve.

0:29

For the apparent origin,

0:30

the one you see when you look

0:31

macroscopically at the brainstem

0:33

is along the origin of the 7th and 8th nerve canal,

0:37

right at the origin of the canaliculus.

0:40

Traveling with the 7th nerve is this chubby pink nerve.

0:44

And you can see they both have an anterosuperolateral

0:48

course or an antero-superolateral course.

0:50

They travel together as the 7th and 8th nerve complexes,

0:54

and they're actually going to be broken

0:56

down into a four nerve group.

0:59

You're going to have the superior and inferior vestibular

1:02

nerves in the back and the 7th nerve up and

1:05

the cochlear nerve down in the front.

1:07

So, if you were going to produce a sagittal section of this area,

1:12

something like this, or a sagittal oblique,

1:15

and you were looking along the sagittal,

1:17

this would be anterior, this would be posterior.

1:19

So you'd have four nerves.

1:20

There's one.

1:21

There's two.

1:22

There's three.

1:24

And what are those four nerves?

1:27

Well, those four nerves are seven up,

1:31

facial nerve, anterior,

1:33

coch. down.

1:34

So, this would be facial.

1:36

This would be cochlear.

1:37

And in the back you'd have superior vestibular

1:40

and inferior vestibular.

1:43

These are actually going to be divided up by the

1:45

crista falciformis, horizontally,

1:47

and Bill's Bar, vertically.

1:50

Let's move on, shall we?

Report

Description

Faculty

Stephen J Pomeranz, MD

Chief Medical Officer, ProScan Imaging. Founder, MRI Online

ProScan Imaging

Tags

Temporal bone

Neuroradiology

MRI

Head and Neck

Brain

© 2024 Medality. All Rights Reserved.

Contact UsTerms of UsePrivacy Policy