Classification
Urinary stones may be composed of the following substances:
- Calcium oxalate monohydrate (whewellite)
- Calcium oxalate dihydrate (weddellite)
- Calcium phosphate
- Magnesium phosphate
- Ammonium phosphate
- Ammonium magnesium phosphate (struvite)
- Calcium hydroxyphosphate (apatite)
- Uric acid and its salts (urates)
- Cystine
- Xanthine
- Indigotin (rare)
- Urostealith (rare)
- Sulfonamide (rare)
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