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Intradural extramedullary hemangioblastoma

2009; Thieme Medical Publishers (Germany); Volume: 67; Issue: 2b Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s0004-282x2009000300033

1678-4227

Everton Barbosa-Silva, Gervásio Teles Cardoso de Carvalho, Marcelo de Oliveira Frota, Atos Alves de Sousa, Carlos Batista Alves de Souza,

Intracerebral and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Research

Hemangioblastoma of the spinal cord was first described by Schultze1 in 1912, with the first successful resection of this type of tumor performed on the same occasion. In 1928, Cushing and Bailey2 proposed the term hemangioblastoma in order to distinguish it from arteriovenous malformations. Hemangioblastomas are highly vascularized rare benign tumors, classified as grade I by the WHO, which are poorly described in the literature. The histogenesis of these tumors is uncertain and they are often cystic3 and might be associated with peritumoral [...]