Hemangioblastoma of the lateral ventricle: case report and review of the literature.
We report a unique case of hemangioblastoma of the lateral ventricle in a 73 year-old man with cognitive deficits and fluent dysphasia. He harboured an intraventricular tumor, placed at the trigone of the left lateral ventricle. The tumor was successfully excised, by means of a temporal craniotomy. The patient became mute in the immediate postoperative with restoration of speech within a few days. The literature has been reviewed and only three other similar cases have been reported. Discovery of lesions in such unusual location should raise a high degree of suspicion for von Hippel-Lindau disease.
Prieto
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Unit of Neurosurgery, Clínica Moncloa, Madrid.
Roda
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JM
D000368:Aged; D001041:Aphasia, Wernicke / Q000209:etiology; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002552:Cerebral Ventricles / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D003399:Craniotomy; D018325:Hemangioblastoma / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures