Contiguous haemangioblastomas of the brain and spine in a patient of Von Hippel-Lindau disease.
Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease is an inherited, autosomal-dominant syndrome caused by heterozygous germline mutations in the VHL gene, and predisposing to the development of benign and malignant tumours and cysts in multiple organ systems involving eyes, kidneys, pancreas, liver and central nervous system. The responsible tumour suppressor gene for VHL disease is in chromosome 3p25. We are presenting a case of a patient with both cerebellar as well as spinal haemangioblastoma in addition to polycystic pancreas. We operated on both the spinal and the cerebellar haemangioblastomas and the patient had made a very good recovery. We present this case for its rarity along with the literature review.
Department of Neurosurgery, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. bijoun14@yahoo.com
Asifur
A
Rahman
Saif Ul
SU
Hoque
Paawan Bahadur
PB
Bhandari
Shamsul
S
Alam
D000328:Adult; D002528:Cerebellar Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D018325:Hemangioblastoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D006623:von Hippel-Lindau Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis