Objective: To determine the chemical composition of spontaneously passed urinary stones. Study design: Descriptive. Place and duration: The study was conducted at public and private Pathology laboratories of Larkana from Jan: 2009 to Dec: 2010. Patients and methods: Stones of 278 patients were analyzed chemically, using titrimetric method for estimation of calcium and colorimetric method for ur...

Kidney stones are one of the most common chronic disorders in industrialized countries. In patients with kidney stones, the goal of medical therapy is to prevent the formation of new kidney stones and to reduce growth of existing stones. The evaluation of the patient with kidney stones should identify dietary, environmental, and genetic factors that contribute to stone risk. Radiologic studies ...

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Oral cholecystography repeated at six-months intervals is the standard method for determining reduction in size of gall stones (partial success) and complete dissolution of stones (complete success). In a comparative study of oral cholecystography and cholecystosonography six out of 14 patients with gall stones achieving complete success by oral cholecystographic criteria had stones still detec...

Aim. To estimate the prevalence of coronal pulp stones in the molar teeth of dental outpatients of Sunam, Sangrur district, Punjab, India, to report any association between occurrence of pulp stones with age, gender, dental arch, side, and dental status and to find out correlation between pulp stones with dental and systemic diseases. Materials and Methods. 500 routine dental outpatients within...

PURPOSE The objective of this study were to evaluate the location of ureteral stones and the diameter of the ureter in patients with renal colic. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the records of 95 consecutive patients who presented to the emergency department with renal colic in whom urinary stones were diagnosed by computed tomography between January 2009 and August 2009. Th...

Isolation of Nanobacteria from different types of urinary tract stones from different populations all over the world raises the possibility that these microorganisms are etiological agents of these stones. The aim of this study was to isolate and identify the nanobacteria from different types of human urinary tract stones and serum from Egyptian population. We searched for nanobacteria from ten...

Recent population studies have found symptomatic kidney stone formers to be at increased risk for chronic kidney disease (CKD). Although kidney stones are not commonly identified as the primary cause of ESRD, they still may be important contributing factors. Paradoxically, CKD can be protective against forming kidney stones because of the substantial reduction in urine calcium excretion. Among ...