Letter: Cryptorchidism: is routine intravenous pyelography indicated?
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Value of routine intravenous pyelography in the investigation of hypertension.
Bright in 1836 first described the course of chronic nephritis, and Mahomed in 1874 in his Paper entitled 'The Pre-albumenuric Stage of Bright's Disease' drew attention to the association of this disease with high arterial tension. It has since been well established that renal disease of many kinds predisposes to arterial hypertension (Longcope and Winkenweider, 1933; Pickering and Heptinstall,...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1976
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.51.4.324