Stereotactic radiosurgery versus surgical resection for spinal hemangioblastoma: A systematic review

Spinal cord hemangioblastomas are benign vascular tumors accounting for 3% of central nervous system tumors, and comprising 2 –6% of all tumors within the spinal cord [1–3]. Hemangioblastomas arise sporadically in approximately 70–80% of cases, however 20–30% of these lesions are manifestations of von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease, a heritable multisystem cancer syndrome [1,3–5]. Hemangioblastomas are the most comm on lesions associated with VHL, and patients with this disease will frequently have multiple spinal cord hemangioblastomas with risk of developing additional tumors throughout their lifetime [2,6].
Source: Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery - Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Source Type: research