Case report: Multiple hepatic and pulmonary haemangioblastomas — A new manifestation of von Hippel-Lindau disease

doi:10.1016/S0009-9260(05)81467-9

Clinical Radiology

Volume 45, Issue 1, January 1992, Pages 37-39

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Abstract

Capillary haemangioblastomas rarely occur outside the central nervous system and have not been described previously in the lung or liver. We describe such lesions developing in a patient with von Hippel-Lindau complex who previously had cerebellar and spinal haemangioblastomas resected.

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