Central Nervous System Pathologies in Hereditary Tumor Syndromes

The central nervous system can be affected in many hereditary tumor syndromes, also sometimes referred to as familiar tumor syndromes, genetic tumor syndromes or cancer predisposition syndromes. Although a few of these have been recognized for a long period of time and have been well delineated with regard to clinical presentations and genetic abnormalities, some have been only recently defined. T...