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Research Article

Metastasis of renal cell carcinoma to haemangioblastoma of the spinal cord in von Hippel-Lindau disease: case report and review of the literature

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Pages 224-227 | Published online: 06 Jul 2009
 

Abstract

A case is presented demonstrating the unusual phenomenon of a renal cell carcinoma metastasising to a spinal haemangioblastoma in a patient with von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease. Recent advances in the molecular biology of VHL disease relevant to possible mechanisms of tumour-to-tumour metastasis are briefly reviewed.

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