[Pathology of the cerebellopontine angle].

The pathology of the cistern of the cerebellopontine angle is primarily that of the nervous and vascular structures that it contains and of the meninges that line it. Knowledge of its anatomy makes it possible to understand and search for a rare pathology, the hemifacial spasm, due to a conflict between the facial nerve and the vertebral artery and the posterior inferior cerbellerar artery. However, the pathology of the cerebellopontine angle remains especially tumoral.

T1 signal hyperintensity in the sellar region: spectrum of findings.

T1 signal hyperintensity is a common finding at magnetic resonance imaging of the sellar region. However, this signal intensity pattern has different sources, and its significance depends on the clinical context. Normal variations in sellar T1 signal hyperintensity are related to vasopressin storage in the neurohypophysis, the presence of bone marrow in normal and variant anatomic structures, hyperactive hormone secretion in the anterior pituitary lobe (eg, in newborns and pregnant or lactating women), and flow artifacts and magnetic susceptibility effects.

[Von Hippel-Lindau disease: recent advances in genetics and clinical management].

Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease is a hereditary cancer syndrome that predisposes to the development of a panel of highly vascularized tumors including CNS and retinal hemangioblastomas, endolymphatic sac tumors, clear-cell renal cell carcinomas (RCC), pheochromocytomas and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. CNS hemangioblastomas and RCC are the two main life-threatening manifestations. The disease is caused by germline mutations in the VHL tumor-suppressor gene that plays a major role in regulating the oxygen-sensing pathway by targeting the hypoxia-inducible factor HIF for degradation in proteasome.