The second in a series of capsules of pertinent information and precautions concerning rare disorders for the anesthesiologist
von Hippel-Lindau Disease
What Is It?
von Hippel-Lindau (vHL) disease, named after Eugene von Hippel (1904) and Arvid Lindau (1927), is an autosomal dominant inherited systemic cancer syndrome that results in cysts and hemangiomas in many organs, especially involving the eye and