Urinary stones are crystalline mineral deposits that form in the renal tract, urolithiasis is a
condition commonly encountered in medical practice, affecting both men and women. The …

Separate core and shell examinations were made on 10,000 urinary stones using a
combined crystal-optical X-ray diffractometric method of analysis. 29.5% of these …

Nephrolithiasis is one of the most frequent urologic diseases. The aim of this paper is to
study the composition and frequency of 8854 patient kidney stones and in a subset of them …

Renal stone disease is a chronic disease in which stones appear in the renal calyx system
as a result of impaired urinary excretion (concentration) activity and changes in the quantity …

Kidney stone analysis is the test done on the stone which cause problems when they block
the flow of urine through or out of the kidneys. The stones cause severe pain and are also …

Raman spectroscopic analysis of kidney stones of mixed composition and of unusual stones
is presented. Raman spectroscopy was used to analyze the chemical composition of kidney …

Metabolic Assessment of Urinary Tract Stones Page 1 141 S. Payne et al. (eds.), Imaging and
Technology in Urology, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-2422-1_31, © Springer-Verlag London 2012 …

The human body can manufacture a variety of different stone types (See Fig. 6.1). The more
common types of stones include calcium, uric acid, struvite and cystine. There are a variety …

Analysis of 529 urinary calculi by SEM (EDXA) and following x-ray diffraction in nearly all
cases of oxalate-rich stones reveals a certain content of calcium phosphate, which in more …