Purpose Urolithiasis has become increasingly prevalent, leading to higher disability-
adjusted life years and deaths. Various stone classification systems have been developed to …

The accurate determination of material composition of a kidney stone is crucial for
understanding the formation of it. Such that the type of treatment varies according to the type …

Near-infrared activated nanomaterials have been reported for biomedical applications
ranging from photothermal tumor destruction to biofilm eradication and energy-gated drug …

Résumé Since its first use several decades ago, scanning electron microscopy has been
used in numerous investigations dedicated to biological systems. This contribution focuses …

Detection of the mineral constituents in a batch of 310 samples of human urinary calculi
(kidney stones-235 and bladder stones-75) combined with a semi-quantitative analysis has …

Bulk composition of kidney stones, often analyzed with infrared spectroscopy, plays an
essential role in determining the course of treatment for kidney stone disease. Though bulk …

Résumé Medical literature indicates clearly that cystinuria and cystinosis, two severe genetic
pathologies, are related to the presence of abnormal L-cystine deposits. While L-cystine …

The aim of this paper is to present a protocol for the routine morphocompositional study of
kidney stones in a clinical setting, and to demonstrate that it is a simple and useful approach …

This paper reports on a comprehensive approach to characterize a set of kidney stones
through various analytical techniques including ESEM-EDS, XRD, Raman, and CL …

The genesis and growth of the stones formed inside the human body are imprinted in their
structure. Thus, the pathogenesis of lithiasis must potentially be read using the proper …