von Hippel–Lindau disease

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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.

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von Hippel–Lindau disease (uncountable)

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

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