Giuseppe Lanzino, M.D., Saul F. Morales-Valero, M.D., and William E. Krauss, M.D.
Department of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester Minnesota
Abstract: 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.
Corresponding Author: Giuseppe Lanzino, M.D., Department of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, 200 SW First Street, Rochester, MN 55905. Email: lanzino.giuseppe@mayo.edu.