von Hippel–Lindau disease

English

Alternative forms

• Von Hippel-Lindau disease

Etymology

The German ophthalmologist Eugen von Hippel first described angiomas in the eye in 1904. Arvid Lindau described the angiomas of the cerebellum and spine in 1927.

Noun

von Hippel–Lindau disease (uncountable)

1. (medicine) A type of angiophakomatosis, caused by certain DNA sequence variants (in the VHL gene).

Hypernyms

• phakomatosis
  • angiophakomatosis

Coordinate terms

• Sturge-Weber syndrome