VON HIPPEL-LINDAU DISEASE WITH MULTIPLE SPINAL-CORD HEMANGIOBLASTOMAS, SYRINGOMYELIA AND PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA

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