Von Hippel-Lindau Disease with Multiple Spinal Cord Hemangioblastomas, Syringomyelia and Pheochromocytoma
1995 Volume 34 Issue 3 Pages 216-219
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1995 Volume 34 Issue 3 Pages 216-219
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.
(Internal Medicine 34: 216-219, 1995)
