Ammonium and sodium urates precipitating from synthetic urine and fine structure of urate renal calculi

Urological Research

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 141-147

  Grases, F ^a   Villacampa, A I ^a   Costa Bauza A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ammonium urate; Crystallization; Renal calculi; Sodium urate

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; URATE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; URINALYSIS; UROLITHIASIS; X RAY MICROANALYSIS;

CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KIDNEY CALCULI; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PRECIPITATION; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; URIC ACID;

EID: 0032912845     PISSN: 03005623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002400050100     Document Type: Article

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