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hemangioblastoma
- benign autusomal dominant tumor
- 10% multiple
- erythrocytemia in 20%
- age:
- location: cerebellum > spinal cord > cerebrum
- findings:
- cystic mass (2/3); solid tumor (1/3)
- homogenous enhancement of mural nodule (50%)
- occasional enhancement of cytic wall
- almost never calcifies
- angio: dense staining of cystic wall and nidus
- DDx:
- astrocytoma
(> 5cm, calcifications, no angiographic
contrast blush of mural nodule, no erythrocyemia)
- metastasis
Yong H. Hahn, MD - 2 February 1995
Last updated: 1 October 2013
Copyright © 2013, Charles E. Kahn, Jr.
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