✓ During a continuing study of the anatomy of the parasellar region, a macroscopically identifiable nerve has been observed to leave the foramen lacerum and join the abducens nerve within the cavernous sinus. A description and photographic documentation of this sympathetic branch to the fifth cranial nerve by way of the sixth cranial nerve are presented.
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