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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
Copyright © 2013, Charles E. Kahn, Jr.
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