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We report two rare cases of long term recurrence of vestibular schwannomas after gross total removal.Two patients, a 66 year old female and a 61 year old male, underwent surgery for vestibular schwannoma. In both patients an enlarged translabyrinthine approach was performed to achieve a gross total removal of vestibular schwannoma. Both the patients developed a tumor recurrence 13 and 16 years after surgery respectively. Recurrences after gross total tumor removal with Enlarged Translabyrinthine Approach is uncommon. Though different centres have different protocols, generally follow-up is restricted to a maximum of ten years after surgery since most recurrences tend to occur within this time period. This report points out to the fact that patients need to be put on prolonged follow up for at least 15 years even after gross total removal.Running Title -Recurrence of vestibular schwannoma.