Table 1.

Differential diagnosis of lesions within Meckel’s cave

Benign	Meningioma [61]
	Benign Schwannoma [61]
	Benign melanotic schwannoma [99]
	Xanthoma [100]
	Lipoma [61]
	Neuromuscular hamartoma [33]
	Hemangioblastoma [27]
	Cavernous hemangioma [63]
	Pituitary adenoma [63]
Malignant	Malignant peripheral nerve sheet tumor [63]
Primary	Nasal glioma [25]
	Atypical teratoid-rhabdoid [20]
	Intradural chordoma [15]
	Chondrosarcoma [63]
	Paraganglioma [30]
	Rhabdomyosarcoma [63]
Metastatic
	Neuroendocrine carcinoma [63]
	Adenoid cystic carcinoma [5]
	Malignant melanotic schwannoma [23, 61, 101]
	Squamous cell carcinoma [63]
	Adenocarcinoma [63]
Inflammatory	Sarcoidosis [19, 69]
	Amyloidoma [22, 24, 28]
	IgG4 disease [63]
	Necrotizing granulomatous inflammation [63]
	Inflammatory pseudotumor [63]
Hematologic malignancies	Primary malignant lymphoma [26]
	Multiple myeloma [32]
	NK/T lymphoma [63]
	Diffuse B-cell lymphoma*
	Plasmacytoma [63]
	Marginal zone lymphoma [63]
	Chronic eosinophilic leukemia [63]
	Lymphoplasmocytic lymphoma [63]
	Non-Hodgkin lymphoma [63]
Cystic	Arachnoid cyst [5, 21, 34, 61, 64]
	Epidermoid cyst [17, 29]
	Meningoceles [102]

*Illustrative case report presented in this article