The dotted corticomedullary junction: a sonographic indicator of small-vessel disease in hypertensive children.
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.
D002114:Calcinosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D013700:Giant Cell Arteritis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D006978:Hypertension, Renovascular / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D007672:Kidney Cortex; D007679:Kidney Medulla; D008297:Male; D014463:Ultrasonography