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