geniculate ganglion

They should not be confused with the geniculate ganglion of the facial nerve.

These fibers reach the geniculate ganglion but do not synapse.

Like the others, it is a bilaterally distributed structure, with each side of the face having a geniculate ganglion.

The geniculate ganglion is one of several ganglia of the head and neck.

RHS type 2 is essentially shingles of the geniculate ganglion.

The facial nerve forms the geniculate ganglion prior to entering the facial canal.

The cell bodies for the afferent nerves are found in the geniculate ganglion for taste sensation.

The geniculate ganglion lies approximately 2-3 mm anterior and medial to the head of the malleus.

Just distal to the geniculate ganglion, the facial nerve gives off the greater petrosal nerve.

The greater superficial petrosal nerve is generally easy to visualize and can be followed retrograde to the geniculate ganglion.

Sensory and parasympathetic inputs are carried into the geniculate ganglion via the nervus intermedius.

Upon reaching the facial canal, it joins with the motor root of the facial nerve at the geniculate ganglion.

The geniculate ganglion contains the cell bodies of the sensory component of the nervus intermedius.

Dural elevation should proceed from posterior to anterior to avoid injury to an exposed greater superficial petrosal nerve or geniculate ganglion.

Ramsay Hunt syndrome type II is the reactivation syndrome of herpes zoster in the geniculate ganglion.

Ramsay Hunt syndrome; VZV rarely affects the geniculate ganglion giving lesions that follow specific branches of the facial nerve.

Once the geniculate ganglion has been completely exposed, the labyrinthine portion of the nerve can be identified and followed medially and inferiorly into the internal auditory canal.

Just after the facial nerve geniculate ganglion (general sensory ganglion) in the temporal bone, the facial nerve gives off two separate parasympathetic nerves.

The facial nerve then forms the geniculate ganglion, which contains the cell bodies of the taste fibers of chorda tympani and other taste and sensory pathways.

In sufferers of GN, signals sent along these nerves are altered and interpreted by the geniculate ganglion (a structure in the brain) as GN pain.

Since the vestibulocochlear nerve is in proximity to the geniculate ganglion, it may also be affected, and patients may also suffer from tinnitus, hearing loss, and vertigo.

Some of these preganglionic parasympathetic fibers persist within the greater petrosal nerve as they exit the geniculate ganglion and subsequently synapse with neurons in the pterygopalatine ganglion.

They are innervated by the seventh cranial nerve, more specifically via the submandibular ganglion, chorda tympani, and geniculate ganglion ascending to the solitary nucleus in the brainstem.

The greater (superficial) petrosal nerve is a branch of the facial nerve that arises from the geniculate ganglion, a part of the facial nerve inside the facial canal.

The geniculate ganglion (from Latin genu, for "knee") is an L-shaped collection of fibers and sensory neurons of the facial nerve located in the facial canal of the head.