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Pediatric Eighth Cranial Nerve Schwannoma Without Evidence of Neurofibromatosis

Tri-County Neurosurgery Pottstown, Pennsylvania

Roger A. Brumback, MD

Department of Pathology, roger-brumback{at}ouhsc.edu

Richard W. Leech, MD

Department of Pathology

Luann E. Van Campen, PhD

Department of Otorhinolaryngology

Don A. Wilson, MD

Department of Radiological Sciences

B. Hill Britton, MD

Department of Otorhinolaryngology University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

L. Philip Carter, MD

Western Neurosurgery Tucson, Arizona

Schwannomas of the eighth cranial nerve are rare in children. We report a 4¹⁰/₁₂-year-old girl with no evidence of neurofibromatosis who presented with facial droop. Radiographic studies revealed a large cerebellopontine angle tumor. At surgery, the tumor was attached to the eighth cranial nerve and histologically was a schwannoma. This is the youngest reported case of unilateral eighth cranial nerve schwannoma in a patient without the stigmata of neurofibromatosis. (J Child Neurol 1999;14:67-69).

Journal of Child Neurology, Vol. 14, No. 1, 67-69 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/088307389901400105


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