ABSTRACT
Haemangioblastoma is a rare, benign tumour of vascular origin which usually occurs in the posterior fossa. Supratentorial haemangioblastomas are exceptionally rare. In this report we present three cases of supratentorial haemangioblastoma with MRI findings.
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Hemangioblastoma/diagnosis , Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Supratentorial Neoplasms/diagnosis , Adult , Child , Craniotomy , Female , Hemangioblastoma/surgery , Humans , Image Enhancement , Male , Supratentorial Neoplasms/surgeryABSTRACT
The influence of cervical and periarterial sympathectomy on endothelium-dependent relaxation of the rabbit common carotid artery was studied in vitro. Noradrenaline, serotonin, acetylcholine and papaverine concentration-response curves of sympathectomized and control rabbit common carotid artery rings were recorded and analyzed and effects of endothelium removal were investigated. Endothelium-dependent relaxation was selectively and significantly inhibited in 3 weeks postsympathectomy arterial preparations. Alterations in acetylcholine receptors of endothelial cells, decrease in endothelium-derived relaxing factor synthesis, or desensitization of medial muscular cells to endothelium-derived relaxing factor are hypothetical causes of this phenomenon.
