Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Volume 8, Issue 2 , Pages 131-136 , June 2007

Severe Hypertension in a 4-Year-Old Child

  • Jeffrey R. Dingman, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD
    • ,
  • Pavan P. Zaveri, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Emergency Medicine, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests and correspondence: Pavan P. Zaveri, MD.

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☆ Presented Emergi-Quiz Competition at the Annual Meeting of the Section on Emergency Medicine at the American Academy of Pediatrics National Convention and Exposition, Atlanta, GA, October, 2006.

PII: S1522-8401(07)00029-8

doi: 10.1016/j.cpem.2007.06.002

Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Volume 8, Issue 2 , Pages 131-136 , June 2007

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