“…There have also been reports of purely intralabyrinthine schwannomas arising from both cochlea or vestibular neural elements [4]. In the past these tumours were unsuspected findings during surgery for vertigo [2,6,7,8,14,16,17,18] or have been found incidentally in temporal bone collections [1,9,10,12,15]. A case was diagnosed radiologically prior to surgery in 1972 [11].…”