Multiple spinal hemangioblastomas in a case of Lindau's disease.
A 32-year-old man with Lindau's syndrome is presented. After an initial operation for cerebellar hemangioblastoma and laser coagulation of retinal tumors, other retinal tumors, a second cerebellar tumor, and four spinal hemangioblastomas occurred 10 years later; cystic lesions of both kidneys and of the pancreas could also be shown. There is no family history. Consequences for further diagnostic procedures in patients with hemangioblastomas are discussed.
D000328:Adult; D000798:Angiomatosis / Q000150:complications*; D006394:Hemangiosarcoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006623:von Hippel-Lindau Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging