Hemangioblastoma de Bulbo

Atypical Onset of Sciatica in a Patient With a Filum Terminale Hemangioblastoma Ciatalgia de presentación atípica en paciente con hemangioblastoma de filum terminale

Hemangioblastomas are uncommon lesions that represent nearly 4% of the tumors of the spinal cord. Three fourths of them are sporadic, and the remainder are components of von Hippel Lindau (VHL) disease.1,2 They are mostly found in the cerebellum, although they can develop in the brain stem or spinal cord; of the latter, they are only rarely located in the filum terminale.3 The filum terminale i...

Supratentorial hemangioblastoma.

Hemangioblastomas are extremely rare in supratentorial locations, and to date, approximately 128 cases of supratentorial hemangioblastoma have been reported in the literature. Here, we report a female case of supratentorial hemangioblastoma, not associated with von Hippel-Lindau disease. We describe its clinical, neuropathological, and neuroradiological characteristics, elaborate the surgical p...

Intradural extramedullary hemangioblastoma.

Dr. Everton Barbosa da Silva – Rua Padre Marinho 480 / 504 30140-040 Belo Horizonte MG Brasil. E mail: [email protected] Hemangioblastoma of the spinal cord was first described by Schultze in 1912, with the first successful resection of this type of tumor performed on the same occasion. In 1928, Cushing and Bailey proposed the term hemangioblastoma in order to distinguish it from arterioven...

Hemangioblastoma : Imaging findings

Third Ventricular Hemangioblastoma: MR Appearance

A 15-year-old boy had an acute, severe change in personality and deterioration in mental status over a period of 2 weeks. Peculiar mannerisms and incoherent speech developed, and he had episodes of prolonged staring and seizures. He became withdrawn and solitary, and subsequently developed urinary and fecal incontinence. Routine laboratory studies were unremarkable. A CT scan showed a large lob...