Multiple intracerebral haemangioblastomas in identical twins with von Hippel-Lindau disease - A clinical and molecular study

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 281-285

  Sobottka, S B ^a,b   Frank, S ^a   Hampl, M ^a   Schackert, H K ^a   Schackert, G ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Haemangioblastoma; Identical twins; Presymptomatic diagnosis; VHL tumour suppressor gene; Von Hippel Lindau disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; VON HIPPEL LINDAU DISEASE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; GENETIC SCREENING; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HIPPEL-LINDAU DISEASE; HUMANS; LIGASES; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; PEDIGREE; PROTEINS; RISK; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES; VON HIPPEL-LINDAU TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN;

EID: 0031945775     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007010050096     Document Type: Article

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