Hippel-Lindau disease. a case history of one family
Feldberg, M.A.; van Waes, P.F.; Schönfeld, D.H.
Radiologia Clinica 47(2): 91-99
1978
ISSN/ISBN: 0376-6748 PMID: 625556 Document Number: 132941
This article describes the results of a prospective study in the 4 asymptomatic members of a family affected with Hippel-Lindau disease after the death of 2 patients and the surgical findings of the third. It stresses the multicentric and bilateral origin of renal cell carcinoma in Hippel-Lindau disease, usually combined with renal cortical cysts. The walls of these cysts often contain carcinoma cells. It is important that all relatives of a patient with the Hippel-Lindau disease are adequately screened.