Case reportThe female patient, aged 49, reported pains in her second and third finger of the right hand that she had had for 2 years. Initial diagnosis revealed isthmus carpalis and the patient was operated on without much success—no improvement was noticed.A year later, intensifying root pains of Root C5 and C6 on the right side were the reason for performing an MRI scan of the cervical spine. The findings from the study showed an intramedullary lesion of 1.5 cm in diameter, localized at the height of C5–C6 with accompanying syrinx stretching from C3 to C7. The patient was consulted neurosurgically several times, but refused to submit to a surgical treatment. Gradually, the pains extended to the entire forearm of the upper right limb, and numbness appeared of both lower limbs. She met the clinical diagnostic criteria for VHL disease [11]. Sequencing of the VHL gene revealed the presence of the 393C>A (N131K) missense mutation (Fig. 1) [12]. VHL disease was also diagnosed in her relatives (shown in Fig. 2).
PatientID: III:2 (case)
KindredID: 1
Case: F, 49Y0M, Ethnicity Unknown
DiseaseAssertion: VHL
FamilyInfo: VHL disease was diagnosed in her relatives - although no genetic testing was directly performed on them prior to death. 2/3 of her siblings and her father were affected. Her father had retinal hemangioblastoma at 30Y, CNS hemangioblastoma at 40Y and died at 41Y. Her older brother had kidney cancer and died at 48Y, and her sister had retinal hemangioblastoma at 13Y and CNS hemangioblastoma at 29Y. The case’s daughter tested negative and their other living sister.
CasePresentingHPOs: HP:0009711; HP:0000107; HP:0009713; HP:0002668 (retinal capillary hemangioblastoma; renal cysts; spine hemangioblastoma; paraganglioma)
CaseHPOFreeText: patient at retinal hemangioblastoma at 22Y. At 47Y she reported pains in her second and third finger of the right hand. She developed large carotid body paraganglioma at the common carotid artery bifurcation, (49Y) coexisting with a hemangioblastoma situated intramedullary in region C5/C6 (the right-sided dorsal part of the spinal cord) at 47Y). 1 year after the hemangioblastoma resection, the spinal symptoms receded and the carotid body paraganglioma still was asymptomatic. Motor issues and Babinski syndrome were also observed.
CaseNotHPOs: N/A
CaseNotHPOFreeText: N/A
CasePreviousTesting: N/A
PreviouslyPublished: N/A
SupplementalData: N/A
Variant: p.N131K (c.393C>A)
LegacyVariant: N/A
CaseProblemVariantFreeText: N/A
ClinVarID: 420074 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/variation/420074/
CAID: N/A
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VariantEvidence: N/A
MutationType: missense_variant;transversion
CivicName: N131K (c.393C>A)
MultipleGeneVariants: N/A