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Epidural anaesthesia for Caesarean section in a patient with von Hippel-Lindau disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 August 2006

Y. Demiraran
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesiology, stanbul University, Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty American Hospital, Turkey
M. Özgön
Affiliation:
American Hospital, stanbul, Turkey
T. Utku
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesiology, stanbul University, Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty American Hospital, Turkey
P. Bozkurt
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesiology, stanbul University, Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty American Hospital, Turkey
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Abstract

Von Hippel-Lindau disease is a rare autosomal dominant disease with incomplete penetrance and variable expression and is characterized by diffuse haemangioblastomas of the central nervous system and viscera. The majority of the central nervous system lesions are located in the cerebellum. This report describes the successful management with epidural anaesthesia of a woman with a term gestation, von Hippel-Lindau disease and cerebellar haemangioblastoma.

Type
Clinical Letter
Copyright
2001 European Society of Anaesthesiology

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