Mineral composition of renal stones from the Sudan

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 154-156

  Balla, A A ^a   Salah, A M ^a   Khattab, A H H ^a   Kambal, A ^a   Bongartz, D ^b   Hoppe, B ^b   Hesse, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ammonium urate; Calcium oxalate; Infrared spectroscopy; Renal calculi; Sudan; Uric acid

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; APATITE; CALCIUM OXALATE; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE DIBASIC; CARBONIC ACID; CYSTINE; MINERAL; STRUVITE; URATE; URIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STONE ANALYSIS; SUDAN; UROLITHIASIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CALCIUM OXALATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY CALCULI; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXALATES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SUDAN; URIC ACID;

EID: 0032449658     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000030312     Document Type: Article

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