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Hemangioblastoma (Lindau’s tumor) is a neoplasm which is found mainly in the cerebellum and is characterized by the progressive growth of angioblastic elements. When associated with retinal angiomatosis (von Hippel’s disease), it forms the “angiomatosis of the central nervous system” [1656]. This association, known as von Hippel—Lindau disease [107], has been verified to be fairly rare [2079, 104]. It encompasses other malformative hamartoblastomatous processes such as cysts and tumors of the kidney, liver, pancreas, and adrenal glands [1605]. Syringomyelia may be associated with spinal hemangioblastomas.
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Schiffer, D. (1993). Vascular Tumors. In: Brain Tumors. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2913-2_20
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