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Washington University Experience | NEOPLASMS (MESENCHYMAL, NON-MENINGOTHELIAL) | Hemangioblastoma | 6A1 Hemangioblastoma (Case 6) H&E 4
Case 6 History ---- The patient is a 22 year old woman with three weeks of headache and unilateral hand clumsiness, who has a unilocular, smooth-walled, cystic lesion of the posterior fossa, which has a very small mural nodule. Clinical diagnosis: Hemangioblastoma. Operative procedure: Posterior fossa craniectomy for tumor resection. ---- Histological sections of the posterior fossa tumor show a neoplasm with a dense network of fine capillaries and sharp demarcation from adjacent benign cerebellar tissue.
