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renal calculi


  • common:
    • calcium phosphate (8%)
    • calcium oxalate (most common: 73%, most opaque)
    • magnesium ammonium phosphate ("struvite")

  • uncommon:
    • diammonium calcium phosphate
    • magnesium phosphate

  • rare:
    • cystine (faintly opaque; 1%)
    • urate (lucent; 7%)
    • xanthine

see: matrix calculi


Charles E. Kahn, Jr., MD  -  2 February 1995
Last updated:  1 October 2013


 

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