[Another case of hypertension due to a tumour of the juxta-glomerular apparatus (author's transl)].

Eleven cases of hypertension secondary to a renal tumour secreting renin have been described in the literature between 1967 and 1978. We report here another case which presented with severe hypertension and a cerebro-vascular accident in a 30 year old woman. Intravenous urography and renal arteriography revealed a tumour of the upper pole of the left kidney. Measurement of renin levels in the renal veins demonstrated hypersecretion on the side of the tumour. Tumorectomy was followed by normalisation of blood pressure levels. Histopathological examination confirmed the diagnosis of a tumour of the juxta-glomerular apparatus.