title: Cauda equina hemangioblastoma: case report.
abstract: Hemangioblastomas of the spinal cord are rare lesions, and those located at the cauda equina are even rarer. Most commonly these tumors are present in patients with von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) syndrome. We describe here the case of a 48 years old woman with a pure radicular hemangioblastoma, not associated with VHL, presenting with radicular pain, diagnosed with magnetic ressonance imaging (MRI) and submitted to total resection with a very good outcome. To our knownledge, this is the second report to describe the MRI aspect of histologically proved hemangioblastoma of the cauda equina in a patient without clinical criteria for VHL.
authors.affiliation: Benjamin Guimar es Foundation, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil. leodante@terra.com.br
authors.forename: Leodante Batista
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: da Costa
authors.forename: Agustinho
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: de Andrade
authors.forename: Bruno Perocco
authors.initials: BP
authors.lastname: Braga
authors.forename: Carlos Alberto
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Ribeiro
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002420:Cauda Equina; D005260:Female; D018325:Hemangioblastoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010524:Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery