Trigeminal neurinoma

Scope and Content

Ross drawing of brainstem and base of brain with the following labels: tumour filling Cavum Meckelii, 5th root, 7th & 8th nerves, and 6th nerves. A second ross drawing is affixed in the top left corner giving a sagittal view of the area with the 3rd nerve and the 6th nerve labelled. Annotations on the back read "Jefferson 5th N neuroma".

This drawing features as plate 41 accompanying case 2 in the publication G. Jefferson, 'The trigeminal neurinomas', Clinical Neurosurgery, 1955, 1:11-54, in which it is described as a "neurinoma mainly in the posterior fossal but also in Meckel's cave".

Signed by the artist at the bottom in the middle.

Related Material

UoM Library also hold the medical case notes for the subject of this drawing which can be found in the collection of Geoffrey Jefferson's patient case files, JCN/14/144.

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