title: Multiple cerebellar haemangioblastomas symptomatic during pregnancy.
abstract: A patient with von Hippel-Lindau disease presented during her seventh week of pregnancy with obstructive hydrocephalus and brainstem compression caused by multiple cerebellar haemangioblastomas. Surgery was performed to relieve the hydrocephalus and remove the right cerebellar tumour. The patient's subsequent course supports the hypothesis of vascular engorgement of cerebellar haemangioblastomas during pregnancy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, University of Natal Medical School and Wentworth Hospital, Durban, South Africa. NaidooJ@wwh.und.ac.za
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Naidoo
authors.forename: A I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Bhigjee
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002528:Cerebellar Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D002531:Cerebellum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D005260:Female; D018325:Hemangioblastoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011247:Pregnancy; D011252:Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D012086:Reoperation; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D017287:Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt; D006623:von Hippel-Lindau Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*