Neuro-Oncology: Resection of spinal hemangioblastoma

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Resection of spinal hemangioblastoma

Journal of Neurosurgery: Neurosurgical FOCUS: Table of Contents

Neurosurgical Focus, Volume 37, Issue Suppl2, Page Video 15, September 2014.
Spinal cord hemangioblastomas occur as sporadic lesions or in the setting of Von Hippel-Lindau disease. In this intraoperative video we present a case of sporadic cervical cord hemangioblastoma and illustrate the main surgical steps to achieve safe and complete resection which include: identification and division of the feeding arteries; careful circumferential dissection of the tumor from the surrounding gliotic cord; identification, isolation and division of the main venous drainage and single piece removal of the tumor. The video can be found here: http://youtu.be/I7DxqRrfTxc.

Original Article: http://thejns.org/doi/abs/10.3171/2014.V3.FOCUS14379?ai=rw&mi=3ba5z2&af=R