Von Hippel-Lindau disease with multiple spinal cord hemangioblastomas, syringomyelia and pheochromocytoma

Intern Med. 1995 Mar;34(3):216-9. doi: 10.2169/internalmedicine.34.216.

Abstract

A 31-year-old blind man presented with numbness and weakness in the left hand, and elevated blood pressure. Multiple hemangioblastomas in the spinal cord associated with syringomyelia were well demonstrated by gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). He also had pheochromocytoma in the right adrenal gland, which was disclosed by abdominal computed tomography, MRI and 131I-metaiodobenzylguanidine scintigraphy. MRI screening should be considered for patients with von Hippel-Lindau gene to detect the multiple lesions in this disease.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / complications*
  • Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / therapy
  • Adult
  • Hemangioblastoma / complications*
  • Hemangioblastoma / diagnosis
  • Hemangioblastoma / therapy
  • Humans
  • Hypertension / complications
  • Hypertension / diagnosis
  • Hypertension / therapy
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Pheochromocytoma / complications*
  • Pheochromocytoma / diagnosis
  • Pheochromocytoma / therapy
  • Spinal Cord Neoplasms / complications*
  • Spinal Cord Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Spinal Cord Neoplasms / therapy
  • Syringomyelia / complications*
  • Syringomyelia / diagnosis
  • Syringomyelia / therapy
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • von Hippel-Lindau Disease / complications*
  • von Hippel-Lindau Disease / diagnosis
  • von Hippel-Lindau Disease / therapy