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The case of a 14-year old girl presenting with headaches, severe progressive hypertension and high plasma renin levels, in whom a voluminous epithelial liver hamartoma or adenoma was discovered at surgery is documented. The morphological characteristics of the hamartomatous abnormality are described and evidences are put forward which would suggest that the liver lesion might have been the site of the abnormal renin production which was responsible for the systemic arterial hypertension.
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The authors wish to thank Miss C. L. Seignemartin and Mrs. C. Campana for secretarial services, Miss G. Leyvraz and Miss M. Poulet for technical assistance and Messrs. J. C. Bumheli and E. Denkinger for the photographs.
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Cox, J.N., Paunier, L., Vallotton, M.B. et al. Epithelial liver hamartoma, systemic arterial hypertension and renin hypersecretion. Virchows Arch. A Path. Anat. and Histol. 366, 15–26 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00438675
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