Calcium Nephrolithiasis and Cellulose Phosphate

Abstract

Renal stones is not one of the "in" topics of medical research. Historical importance it has aplenty, but glamour and excitement none. Research in the stone field has been ploddingly slow and carried out in relatively few laboratories. Nevertheless, genuine, valuable accor plishments have been made in the past decade leading to better understanding of pathogenetic mechanisms and rational therapy of stone disease. Witness the increased knowledge of factors affecting calcium excretion, the careful descriptions of cystinuria and the hyperoxaluric states, the successful treatment of uric acid stones with allopurinol and alkali, and the reduction of calcium stone formation with . . .