The specific features of neurinoma of the auditory nerve were analysed clinically in 21 patients whose ages ranged from 12 to 18 years. Neurinoma of the auditory nerve located in the cerebellopontine area in children and adolescents has some specific features distinguishing it from that in adults. For instance, its incidence among boys is the same as that among girls. In most patients the neurinomas grew medially and orally, which caused gradual development of hydrocephalic-hypertensive symptoms and only in the far advanced stage of the disease did local symptoms in the form of affection of the trigeminal and facial nerves develop in attendance to them.