Why does the Bonn risk index discriminate between calcium oxalate stone formers and healthy controls?

Journal of Urology

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 766-770

  Kavanagh, John P ^a   Laube, Norbert ^b  

^a WYTHENSHAWE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calcium oxalate; Crystallization; Risk; Urinary calculi

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; CALCIUM OXALATE;

ARTICLE; CALCIUM OXALATE STONE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STIMULATION; STONE FORMATION; THERMODYNAMICS; URINE; UROLITHIASIS;

CALCIUM OXALATE; CRYSTALLIZATION; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT; URINARY CALCULI;

EID: 30344437622     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(05)00145-X     Document Type: Article

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