See Also: Lindau's disease(medicine)
von hippel-lindau disease(medicine)
hippel-lindau disease(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
lindau(medicine)
von Hippel-Lindau(dictionary)
Lindau's tumour(medicine)
lindau-von hippel syndrome(medicine)
Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome(medicine)
syndrome, von hippel-lindau(medicine)

epitaxy (medicine) and Lindau's disease (medicine)


epitaxy (medicine)


epitaxy


The growth of one crystal in one or more specific orientations on the substrate of another kind of crystal, with a close geometric fit between the networks in contact; seen in the alternating layers of different composition in stones from the kidney and gallbladder, indicating an abrupt change of composition during formation.

Origin: epi-+ G. Taxis, arrangement


Lindau's disease (medicine)


Lindau's disease -->
von hippel-lindau syndrome
<radiology> Retinocerebellar angiomatosis, phakomatosis, autosomal dominant (variable penetrance), haemangioblastoma: most frequent cause of death, cerebellar (most common), also medullary and spinal, retinal angiomatosis (45%), renal cell carcinoma: 2nd most common cause of death, pheochromocytoma (17%), cortical renal cysts (75%), cysts in virtually any organ, renal/liver haemangioma/adenoma, pancreatic cystic neoplasms, isleT-cell tumours, paraganglioma