Ammonium acid urate stone due to laxative abuse: A case report

Acta Urologica Japonica

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 799-803

  Kato, Yuji ^a   Hou, Kyokushin ^a   Saga, Yuji ^a   Yamaguchi, Satoshi ^a   Yachiku, Sunao ^a   Kawakami, Norihiro ^b  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b Department of Urology   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acid ammonium urate; Laxative abuse; Pseudo Bartter syndrome

Indexed keywords

BISACODYL; EMODIN; LAXATIVE; SENNOSIDE; TECHNETIUM 99M; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URATE AMMONIUM; URIC ACID;

ADULT; ALDOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLANK PAIN; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; JAPAN; SCINTIGRAPHY; SODIUM URINE LEVEL; URETER STONE; URIC ACID STONE; URINARY EXCRETION; URINE VOLUME; X RAY FILM;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CATHARTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETERAL CALCULI; URETEROSCOPY; URIC ACID;

EID: 10844277204     PISSN: 00181994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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