OBJECTIVE To report the clinical outcomes and molecular genetics of nongermline retinal hemangioblastoma managed by surgical resection. METHODS Retrospective case series of 3 patients aged 16 to 46 years treated at a tertiary care referral center (Casey Eye Institute, Portland, Oregon). Tumors 7 to 9 mm in diameter were removed from 3 consecutive eyes (in 3 patients) via internal en bloc surg...

PEARL Anorexia and emaciation result from various conditions, including digestive diseases, metabolic disorders, chronic inflammation, chronic infections, malignancies, and psychiatric problems. Intracranial tumors can also cause a reduction in food intake, thus mimicking anorexia nervosa, through various mechanisms. Fourth ventricular tumors, particularly hemangioblastomas, can cause prolonged...

cerebellar ataxias are a heterogenous group of disorders, clinically and etiologically, that result in considerable health burden. finding out about the various etiologies, and their relative prevalences in the population suffering from cerebellar ataxia helps the clinician to perform a better management, in treatment process. this is a cross sectional study designed to estimate the relative pr...

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...

The patient is a 14-year-old boy with a family history of von HippelLindau disease. The boy's father died from intracranial manifestations of the disease. Sixteen months before this admission to the hospital, the patient was found to have two cerebellar hemangioblastomas, and one was removed . Blood loss ' at surgery was 600 ml, and achieving hemostasis was difficult. The remaining tumor was re...

infection resulting from plasmodium vivax is the commonest type found in india as well as other tropical regions. the clini­cal picture is variable depending on the nature, immunity of the child, and lives in an endemic area or not. here, we report a child, who presented with cerebellar dysfunction with intact sensorium and plasmodium vivax was positive on peripheral smear.