La mineralogía de los cálculos renales, un caso de mineralogía patológica humana

Abstract

1,214 renal calculi, which had been espontaneously expelled or surgically removed from 825 male and 389 female patients, were characterized mineralogically. The calculi are classified as per their mineralogy in those composed of: (1) weddellite, (2) whewellite, (3) weddellite- whewellite, (4) weddellite - whewellite - apatite, (5) apatite - struvite, (6) struvite and (7) uricite. Mixing among some of these types can be observed. Of the trace elements Fe, Zn, Pb, Mn, Cu, and Sr, the contents of Fe and Zn are respectively 297 and 214 ppm for weddellite, 766 and 255 for whewellite, 1,297 and 703 for apatite, 248 and 264 for struvite, and 1,218 and 320 for uricite. Download full text.