Cauda equina hemangioblastoma: case report.
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.
da Costa
Leodante Batista
LB
Benjamin Guimar es Foundation, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil. leodante@terra.com.br
de Andrade
Agustinho
A
Braga
Bruno Perocco
BP
Ribeiro
Carlos Alberto
CA
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