Multiple Hypernephromas of the Kidney in Association with Lindau's Disease

IN 1911, von Hippel1 described the condition of angiomatosis of the retina. After making a study of cerebellar cysts, Lindau2 subsequently pointed out that 20 per cent of patients with angiomatosis of the retina have intracranial complications consisting of cerebellar cysts or angioblastic tumors in the cerebellum and medulla oblongata. In addition to these intracranial complications, Lindau described the not infrequent occurrence of cysts of the pancreas and cysts or hypernephroma of the kidney. He pointed out that although the intracranial lesion may be angiomatous the abdominal lesions are not vascular; he considered the tumors of the kidney to be . . .