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  • Title: [Radiographic appearances of a renin secreting renal tumor. A rare cause of hypertension (author's transl)].
    Author: Slim R, El Materi A, Ben Maiz H, Ben Ayed H, Fourati A.
    Journal: J Radiol; 1979 Apr; 60(4):287-9. PubMed ID: 490476.
    Abstract:
    Eleven cases of hypertension due to a renin secreting renal tumor have been reported since 1967. Here we are dealing with another case which appeared as hypertension and cerebro vascular accident in a thirty - year old woman an I.V. Pyélogram and a renal angiogram showed a tumor in the upper pole of the left kidney. Renal veins renin dosage showed hypersecretion on the side of the tumor. The tumorectomy was followed by a normalization of blood pressure. The microscopic study confirmed the diagnosis of renin secreting juxta-glomerular cell tumor.
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