H. Furusu et al., VON HIPPEL-LINDAU DISEASE WITH MULTIPLE SPINAL-CORD HEMANGIOBLASTOMAS, SYRINGOMYELIA AND PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA, Internal medicine, 34(3), 1995, pp. 216-219
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.