Progressive Facial Palsy and Neurinomas of the VIIth Nerve

Facial nerve neurinomas are rare in comparison to other schwannomas of the base of the skull, notably and especially neurinomas of the VIIIth nerve, but also tumors of mixed nerves expressed in the jugular foramen on in the cervical region. Recent observations have spectacularly illustrated the extremely polymorphous character of the symptomatology encountered and the value of the classification proposed by Sterkers et al. in 1986 [5]. The following is a brief review of that classification.