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| Year : 2011 | Volume
: 16
| Issue : 4 | Page : 152-154 |
Recurrent malignant juxtaglomerular cell tumor: A rare cause of malignant hypertension in a child
Altaf H Shera1, Aejaz A Baba1, Iftikhar H Bakshi2, Iqbal A Lone3
1 Department of Pediatric Surgery, SKIMS, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
2 Department of General Surgery, SKIMS, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
3 Department of Pathology, SKIMS, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Correspondence Address:
Aejaz A Baba
Department of Pediatric Surgery, SKIMS, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0971-9261.86876
A juxtaglomerular cell tumor or reninoma is a very rare renin-secreting tumor of the kidney and can be an unusual cause of secondary hypertension. We report a case of recurrence of this uncommon tumor at the hilum of left kidney in an 8-year-old male child.
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