Schwannomas of the eighth cranial nerve are rare in children. We report a 4
10/12-year-old girl with no evidence of neurofibromatosis who presented wi
th facial droop. Radiographic studies revealed a large cerebellopontine ang
le tumor. At surgery, the tumor was attached to the eighth cranial nerve an
d histologically was a schwannoma. This is the youngest reported case of un
ilateral eighth cranial nerve schwannoma in a patient without the stigmata
of neurofibromatosis.