THE ROLE OF THE RADIOLOGIST IN CHILDHOOD HYPERTENSIVE DISEASE
- 1 May 1968
- journal article
- Published by American Roentgen Ray Society in American Journal of Roentgenology
- Vol. 103 (1) , 61-65
- https://doi.org/10.2214/ajr.103.1.61
Abstract
The radiologist must be alert to the various causes of hypertensive disease and their manifestations in children. Urinary tract examinations are the most fruitful procedures in the evaluation of etiology. Not only does he have an important role in the performance of diagnostic procedures in childhood hypertension; he may actually contribute to the production of hypertension in children as a result of radiation effects upon normal vascular structures included in the fields of radiation administered to malignant tumors. This is a calculated risk he must assume whenever he undertakes radiation therapy for malignancy in a child.Keywords
This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: