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Case Reports: Rare disease
Spinal leptomeningeal hemangioblastomatosis occurring without craniospinal surgery in von Hippel-Lindau disease
  1. Orlando De Jesus and
  2. Julio Rosado-Philippi
  1. Neurosurgery, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  1. Correspondence to Dr Orlando De Jesus; drodejesus{at}aol.com

Abstract

Hemangioblastomatosis represents an unusual and malignant leptomeningeal dissemination of hemangioblastoma (HB). It has been reported in patients with sporadic HB or von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease. Hemangioblastomatosis had been reported following resection of a primary HB lesion in all cases except one patient with a sporadic HB. We present a patient with VHL with several HBs at the brainstem, cerebellum, pituitary stalk and retina who developed spinal hemangioblastomatosis without previous craniospinal surgery. A whole spine MRI showed the spinal dissemination from the primary lesions. The patient received craniospinal radiotherapy due to the extensive spinal leptomeningeal dissemination and multiple HBs. MRI performed 12 months after the radiotherapy showed stability of the lesions.

  • neurosurgery
  • CNS cancer
  • carcinogenesis
  • neuroimaging
  • brain stem/cerebellum

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2022-249758

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors Conception and design: ODJ, JR-P. Drafting the article: ODJ, JR-P. Critically revising the article: ODJ, JR-P. Approval of final version: ODJ, JR-P.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Case reports provide a valuable learning resource for the scientific community and can indicate areas of interest for future research. They should not be used in isolation to guide treatment choices or public health policy.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.