The story
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
Today it means: A type of angiophakomatosis, caused by certain DNA sequence variants (in the VHL gene). Full definition →