The dotted corticomedullary junction: a sonographic indicator of small-vessel disease in hypertensive children

Radiology. 1984 Aug;152(2):419-22. doi: 10.1148/radiology.152.2.6739809.

Abstract

Six children with hypertension are reported where ultrasound showed a striking increase in the intrarenal vascular echoes. This pattern, the dotted corticomedullary junction, appears to represent a diffuse calcifying process involving the elastic fibers of the wall of small arteries.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Calcinosis / complications
  • Calcinosis / diagnosis
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Giant Cell Arteritis / complications
  • Giant Cell Arteritis / diagnosis*
  • Humans
  • Hypertension, Renovascular / complications
  • Hypertension, Renovascular / diagnosis*
  • Kidney Cortex*
  • Kidney Medulla*
  • Male
  • Ultrasonography*