Use the cerebellopontine angle pattern and the NF2 clue to narrow the diagnosis quickly, and remember that vestibular schwannoma is the most common lesion in this space. The practical task is to separate sporadic schwannoma from a syndromic pattern.

Cranial schwannomas are the most common cerebellopontine angle tumor; NF1 is linked to optic nerve glioma and other tumor types; NF2 often produces schwannomas, meningiomas, and ependymomas; Cranial schwannomas usually arise from the vestibular branch of cranial nerve VIII; Schwannomas show Antoni A and Antoni B areas with Verocay bodies