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American Journal of Roentgenology, Vol 98, 907-913, Copyright © 1966 by American Roentgen Ray Society

FIBROMUSCULAR HYPERPLASIA

AN ARTERIAL DYSPLASIA OF INCREASING CLINICAL IMPORTANCE

A. J. PALUBINSKAS M.D.1, DOROTHEE PERLOFF M.D.2, and THOMAS H. NEWTON M.D.1

1 From the Department of Radiology, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, California
2 From the Department of Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, California

Fibromuscular hyperplasia (FMH) is an arterial dysplasia of unknown etiology which can affect muscular arteries of small or moderate size in many parts of the body. It is most often discovered in the renal

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arteries of young, hypertensive adult females. Bilateral involvement of paired arteries appears to be common.

Case reports of 3 patients are presented to illustrate the occurrence of the lesion in extrarenal arteries. The incidence of both symptomatic and asymptomatic intracranial aneurysms in a group of patients with arterial FMH was unusually high.


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