TABLE 2:

Patients perineural tumor spread along the auriculotemporal nerve, as determined with imaging findings

Patient No.	Diagnosis	Cranial Nerve Palsy	Symptoms	Involvement					Additional Imaging Findings
Patient No.	Diagnosis	Cranial Nerve Palsy	Symptoms	Facial Nerve Main Trunk	Auriculotemporal Nerve	Cranial Nerve V	Skull Base	Intracranial	Additional Imaging Findings
1	Poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma	VII palsy at presentation	Facial weakness	Yes	Yes	Yes	Temporal bone along the facial canal	No	None
2	Squamous cell carcinoma	VII palsy at presentation, V₃ 3 mo later	Pretragal mass	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes, 7 m after initial diagnosis	None
3	Poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma	Clinically suspected auriculotemporal nerve dysfunction, V₃ palsy 10 mo later	Ear discomfort, TMJ tenderness	Yes	Yes	Yes	At the foramen spinosum and ovale	No	Spread along the middle meningeal artery
4	Poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma	VII and V palsy, clinically suspected auriculotemporal nerve dysfunction	Retromandibular and pretragal pain	Yes	Yes	Yes	At the right foramen ovale	Yes, 14 mo after initial diagnosis	Involvement of infratemporal fossa
5	Neurofibroma	V₃ palsy at presentation	Pain and mass in the right mandibular region	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	None
6	Moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma	Bilateral V, right VI, and IX palsy	Ear pain, TMJ dysfunction	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Involvement of infratemporal fossa
7	Squamous cell carcinoma	VII palsy for 22 mo	Parotid pain and swelling, preauricular pain	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Involvement of V₁