The British Journal of Psychiatry 150: 858-860 (1987)
© 1987 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
Psychiatric vulnerability and cerebellar haemangioblastoma. A case report
DA Summerfield
St George's Hospital, Tooting, London.
A case of cerebellar haemangioblastoma in described in a middle-aged woman
with a history of multiple psychiatric admissions for depressive and
psychosomatic symptomatology. The diagnosis was not made until a late
stage, largely because of the knowledge of her psychiatric history and its
particular slant. Similar psychiatric symptoms were present at the outset,
colouring the emerging neurological picture. The clinical manifestations
and management of cerebellar haemangioblastoma are described.