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{{ Infobox diagnosis
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| Caption    = Cerebellar hemangioblastoma.
| Caption    = Cerebellar hemangioblastoma.
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==General==
==General==
*Usually ''cerebellar''.
*Usually ''cerebellar''.
**occassionally brainstem or spinal cord. Supratentorial tumors are exceptionally rare.
*Typically in adults.<ref>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Kassardjian | first1 = CD. | last2 = Macdonald | first2 = RL. | last3 = Munoz | first3 = DG. | title = Hemangioblastomas in the elderly: epidemiology and clinical characteristics. | journal = J Clin Neurosci | volume = 21 | issue = 7 | pages = 1205-8 | month = Jul | year = 2014 | doi = 10.1016/j.jocn.2013.10.023 | PMID = 24629394 }}</ref>
*Associated with [[von Hippel-Lindau syndrome]].
*Associated with [[von Hippel-Lindau syndrome]].
*WHO grade I.<ref>URL: [http://www.expertconsultbook.com/expertconsult/ob/book.do?method=display&type=bookPage&decorator=none&eid=4-u1.0-B978-1-4160-4580-9..00019-8--sc0155&isbn=978-1-4160-4580-9 http://www.expertconsultbook.com/expertconsult/ob/book.do?method=display&type=bookPage&decorator=none&eid=4-u1.0-B978-1-4160-4580-9..00019-8--sc0155&isbn=978-1-4160-4580-9]. Accessed on: 9 December 2010.</ref>
*Symptomatic when CSF flow is impaired.
*WHO grade I (ICD-O: 9161/1).<ref>URL: [http://www.expertconsultbook.com/expertconsult/ob/book.do?method=display&type=bookPage&decorator=none&eid=4-u1.0-B978-1-4160-4580-9..00019-8--sc0155&isbn=978-1-4160-4580-9 http://www.expertconsultbook.com/expertconsult/ob/book.do?method=display&type=bookPage&decorator=none&eid=4-u1.0-B978-1-4160-4580-9..00019-8--sc0155&isbn=978-1-4160-4580-9]. Accessed on: 9 December 2010.</ref>
 
==Macroscopy==
*Red to yellow nodules, highly vascularized.
*75% are cystic tumors.
**Peripheral solid portion.
 


==Microscopic==
==Microscopic==
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**Hyperchromatic nuclei.
**Hyperchromatic nuclei.
**Vacuolar cytoplasm.
**Vacuolar cytoplasm.
*Occassionally extensive sclerosis.
Note:
*Based on the stromal content, some classify the tumors as "cellular" and "reticular".<ref>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Hasselblatt | first1 = M. | last2 = Jeibmann | first2 = A. | last3 = Gerss | first3 = J. | last4 = Behrens | first4 = C. | last5 = Rama | first5 = B. | last6 = Wassmann | first6 = H. | last7 = Paulus | first7 = W. | title = Cellular and reticular variants of haemangioblastoma revisited: a clinicopathologic study of 88 cases. | journal = Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol | volume = 31 | issue = 6 | pages = 618-22 | month = Dec | year = 2005 | doi = 10.1111/j.1365-2990.2005.00669.x | PMID = 16281910 }}</ref>


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Image:Cerebellar_hemangioblastoma_high_mag.jpg | Hemangioblastoma - high mag. (WC)
Image:Cerebellar_hemangioblastoma_high_mag.jpg | Hemangioblastoma - high mag. (WC)
Image:Hemangioblastoma_-_nse_-_intermed_mag.jpg | Hemangioblastoma - NSE - intermed. mag. (WC)
Image:Hemangioblastoma_-_nse_-_intermed_mag.jpg | Hemangioblastoma - NSE - intermed. mag. (WC)
File:Hemangioblastoma - nse - high mag.jpg | Hemangioblastoma - NSE - high mag. (WC)
File:Hemangioblastoma Histology CD31.jpg | Hemangioblastoma - CD31. (WC/marvin101)
File:Hippel Lindau.gif | Hemangioblastomas in Hippel-Lindau disease (PlosONE).
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*NSE +ve (nucleus + cytoplasm).
*NSE +ve (nucleus + cytoplasm).
**RCC typically -ve.
**RCC typically -ve.
*CK -ve.


==See also==
==See also==
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