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The '''von Hippel-Lindau disease''', also '''von Hippel-Lindau syndrome''' is characterized by (mnemonic: ''HIPPEL''):<ref>URL: [http://www.medicalmnemonics.com/pdf/2002_09_full_abr_8x11.pdf http://www.medicalmnemonics.com/pdf/2002_09_full_abr_8x11.pdf]. Accessed on: 11 September 2008.</ref>
The '''von Hippel-Lindau disease''', also '''von Hippel-Lindau syndrome''' is characterized by (mnemonic: ''HIPPEL''):<ref>URL: [http://www.medicalmnemonics.com/pdf/2002_09_full_abr_8x11.pdf http://www.medicalmnemonics.com/pdf/2002_09_full_abr_8x11.pdf]. Accessed on: 11 September 2008.</ref>
*[[Hemanigoblastoma]]s.  
*[[Hemanigoblastoma]]s.  
*Increased [[Kidney_tumours#Hereditary_RCC|renal cancer]] (clear cell RCC).
*Increased [[Kidney_tumours#Hereditary_RCC|renal cancer]] ([[clear cell renal cell carcinoma]]).
*[[Pheochromocytoma]].  
*[[Pheochromocytoma]].  
*Port-wine stains, skin lesion - looks like spilled wine; think [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gorbatschow_DR-Forum_129_b2.jpg ''Mikhail Gorbachev''].  
*Port-wine stains, skin lesion - looks like spilled wine; think [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gorbatschow_DR-Forum_129_b2.jpg ''Mikhail Gorbachev''].  

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The von Hippel-Lindau disease, also von Hippel-Lindau syndrome is characterized by (mnemonic: HIPPEL):[1]

Bare bones version:

  • Hippel-Lindau, with H and L as above.

Prevalence

  • 1 in 40,000 live births.[4]

Pancreatic islet cell tumours

In VHL these have distinct morphology:

See also

References

  1. URL: http://www.medicalmnemonics.com/pdf/2002_09_full_abr_8x11.pdf. Accessed on: 11 September 2008.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Perry, Arie; Brat, Daniel J. (2010). Practical Surgical Neuropathology: A Diagnostic Approach: A Volume in the Pattern Recognition series (1st ed.). Churchill Livingstone. pp. 440. ISBN 978-0443069826.
  3. Harris AL (2000). "von Hippel-Lindau syndrome: target for anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) receptor therapy". Oncologist 5 Suppl 1: 32–6. PMID 10804089. http://theoncologist.alphamedpress.org/cgi/content-nw/full/5/suppl_1/32/T1.
  4. Singh AD, Shields CL, Shields JA (2001). "von Hippel-Lindau disease". Surv Ophthalmol 46 (2): 117–42. PMID 11578646.
  5. Musso, C.; Paraf, F.; Petit, B.; Archambeaud-Mouveroux, F.; Valleix, D.; Labrousse, F. (Mar 2000). "[Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors and von Hippel-Lindau disease].". Ann Pathol 20 (2): 130-3. PMID 10740008.