Von Hippel-Lindau disease

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

  • Hemanigoblastomas.
  • Increased renal cancer (clear cell RCC).
  • Pheochromocytoma.
  • Port-wine stains, skin lesion - looks like spilled wine; think Mikhail Gorbachev.
  • Eye dysfunction and Endolymphatic sac tumours.[2]
    • Eye dysfunction = retinal angiomas,[3] (or retinal hemangioblastomas[2] -- depending on the source) .
  • Liver cysts, pancreas cysts (serous microcystic adenoma), pancreatic islet cell tumours & kidney cysts.

Bare bones version:

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

Prevalence

  • 1 in 40,000 live births.[4]

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.
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