| A rare benign highly vascularized tumor of the central nervous system most often located in the cerebellum or spinal cord. The disease presents in adulthood and manifests with dizziness, nausea, malaise, headache, bladder or bowel dysfunction, numbness, weakness and pain in the upper or lower extremities, and is often associated with von Hippel-Lindau disease. Exceptional cases of hemangioblastoma arising outside of the central nervous system have been reported. |