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Sustained Hypertension with Adrenal Medullary Hyperplasia in a 13-year-old Korean Girl
Ki Sub Chung, Ton Sang Park, Pyung Kil Kim, Duk Jin Yun, Kyong Sik Lee, Hong Yul Choi, Yong Kyu Yoon
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1971;14(10):660-665.   Published online October 31, 1971
The most common cause of benign hypertension in childhood has been renal origin, but the paroxysmal hypertension was noted mostly in the tumors originated from the chromaffin tissue such as pheochromocytoma, and very rarely in adrenal medullary hyperplasia. Drukker et al.n described the adrenal medullary hyperplasia which arised from the adrenal gland at the first time as a counterpart to...