A focused 35-minute whole body MRI screening protocol for patients with von Hippel-Lindau disease University of Antwerp Vrije Universiteit Brussel
BackgroundVon Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease is an autosomal dominantly inherited tumor syndrome. Affected patients develop central nervous system hemangioblastomas and abdominal tumors, among other lesions. Patients undergo an annual clinical screening program including separate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain, whole spine and abdomen. Consequently, patients are repeatedly subjected to time-consuming and expensive MRI scans, ...