A composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea.
1 An isolated lesion of the eighth cranial nerve can be the only neurologic sign in patients with leukoencephalopathy complicating Lyme disease.
2 Tumors of the eighth cranial nerve , as well as other intracranial and spinal neoplasms, are the typical lesions in type 2 neurofibromatosis.
3 Vestibular schwannomas (VSs) are benign tumors arising from eighth cranial nerve and most often occur sporadically in individuals of middle age group.
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