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Pattern of urolithiasis in a general hospital a prospective study

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Judging from the abundance of papers published in the medical journals there appears to be a global increase in the incidence of urolithiasis. Urinary excretion of various stone-forming salts in a 24-hour urine specimen is the mainstay of the metabolic workup done in stone-formers. According to the findings patients have been classified into neat categories depending on whether they were hypercalciuric, hyperuriocosuric, etc. As a group their excretion of calcium, oxalate, and urate was not different from the controls. However, they excreted significantly more phosphate and had lower 24-hour urine volumes than the controls.

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Khalifa, M.S., Al Shazly, A. & Reavey, P.C. Pattern of urolithiasis in a general hospital a prospective study. International Urology and Nephrology 21, 17–24 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02549897

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