SUPRATENTORIAL HEMANGIOBLASTOMA IN A CHILD

The authors present a 10 year old girl with convulsions refractory to chemotherapy. Neuroimaging revealed a right temporal mass which proved to be a hemangioblastoma upon its total removal.Key Words: Hemangioblastoma, Supratentorial, von-Hippel Lindau

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