Turkish Neurosurgery 2004 , Vol 14 , Num 1-2
Supratentorial Leptomeningeal Hemangioblastoma Mimicking A Meningioma Without Von Hippel-Lindau Complex
Ömer L. İYİGÜN1, Cengiz ÇOKLUK1, Keramettin AYDIN1, Levent YILDIZ2
1Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Ondokuzmayıs University, Samsun, Turkey
2Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Ondokuzmayıs University, Samsun, Turkey
We present a 61-year-old man with a 3-month history of headache, hemiparesia and speech disturbance. Computerized tomography (CT) of the brain showed well defined, diffusely contrast enhanced and frontoparietally located solid mass. Histopatologic diagnosis of the tumour was hemangioblastoma. In this report, we present clinic, radiologic and histophologic characteristics of the patient and discussed the case under the light of the literature. Keywords : Supratentorial hemangioblastoma, Von Hippel Lindau syndrome, brain tumour
Corresponding author : Keramettin Aydın, kaydin@omu.edu.tr