Abstract
Urinary calculous disease accounts for a large number of hospital admissions yearly and calcium oxalate is the most common stone found. Current theories of calculogenesis suggest that stones form as a consequence of two pathologic processes: (1) urinary solute supersaturation and (2) ineffective inhibition as shown by Robertson1.
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Klein, A.S., Griffith, D.P. (1981). Neutral Potassium Phosphate and Thiazide: Combined Treatment in Recurrent Stone Formers. In: Smith, L.H., Robertson, W.G., Finlayson, B. (eds) Urolithiasis. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8977-4_42
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