Endemic Urinary Lithiasis in Turkish Children: A Clinical Study of 119 Cases

Infrared Spectrometric Analysis of Endemic Bladder Stones in Niger

“…A strong argument that endemic bladder stones and kidney stones are the same disease is the fact that the nuclei of both kidney and bladder stones in developing countries are similar [4,9,16]. However Thalut et al [2] found no renal stones in 50 children who had a preopera tive intravenous urogram for bladder stone.…”

“…Loufti and Hamid [14], Egypt, noted renal stones associated with bladder stones in 3% of the cases. In a series of 119 cases of urinary lithiasis in children [16], 42% of the stones were in the kidney and the ureter, and there was no differ ence in the chemical composition of bladder and kidney stones. In our patients, radiological studies were not sys…”

Composition of Urinary Tract Calculi from Some Developing Countries

“…Endemic stone regions have been recognised for many years (8,9) and some, such as Turkey, India and Thailand, have been well documented (5,7,10) but there is little or no information regarding the nature or extent of the disease in most of the developing countries. The present paper contains quantitative data on the composition of upper and lower tract calculi from four of these countries.…”

Etiological and Clinical Patterns of Urolithiasis in Turkish Children

“…endemic in some parts of the world, especially bladder stones [5,6], Although Turkey is one of the endemic coun tries for urinary stones, there are insufficient data docu menting recent characteristics of the disease in Turkish children [7,8].…”