Arvid Lindau

Arvid Vilhelm Lindau ( born July 23, 1892 in Malmö, † September 7, 1958 in Lund ) was a Swedish pathologist.

Lindau was from 1918 to 1933 at the Department of Anatomical Pathology in Lund worked. In 1926 he received his doctorate with the much-acclaimed work studies Kleinhirncysten. Construction, pathogenesis and relations with retinal angiomatosis, in which he described hemangioma of the cerebellum and its relationship to angiomas of the retina pointed out that were described for the first time in 1904 by Eugen von Hippel. This called Lindau angiomatosis of the central nervous system disease is now known as von Hippel -Lindau syndrome.