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| exits skull thru cribiform plate in ethmoid bone |
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| Enters CNS at optic tract, just below the thalamus in the midbrain |
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| Exit ventral surface of brainstem between the cerebral peduncles |
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| Only CN to exit brainstem on Dorsal aspect in midbrain, below the superior and inferior colliculus |
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| Exit at midlateral surface of pons |
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| Originates in ventral pons and exits the brain at the junction of the pons and the pyramid of medulla |
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| Midventral pons and medullary junction |
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| enters brainstem ateral to the junction of the pons and medulla, and ends in the nuclear complex in the floor of the 4th ventricle |
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| Most superior exit between olive and inferior cerebellar peduncle near cerebellopontine angle |
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| caudal to rootlets of above CN, between olive and inferior cerebellar peduncle |
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| Most inferior CN and exits between olive and inferior cerebellar peduncle |
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| exits medulla between the olive and the pyramid |
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