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Diagnostic difficulties in urate nephrolithiasis with anuria as the presenting sign
Article published in Urologia Polska 1983/36/1.

authors

Jerzy Zieliński, Jerzy Czopik
Klinika Urologii Instytutu Chirurgii ¦l±skiej Akademii Medycznej w Katowicach
Kierownik Kliniki: prof. dr hab. med. J. Zieliński
Kierownik Instytutu: prof. dr hab. med. Cz. Sadliński

summary

Six patients are analysed with anunia caused by bilateral calcull in the upper urinary tract formed'from uric acid, which (were not always producing attacks of renal colic. Diagnostie difficulties are discussed. Early, often irwmediate surgical intervention is recornmended in view iof the possibility of uninairy infection caused by prolonged or fre±uently repeated catheteriization of the ureters.

references

  1. Camey M.: Forum ? Traitement chirurgical de la lithiase malignę. 4th Con-gress of the Europ. Assoc. of Urology, Athens, 1980.
  2. Proca E.: Errors and pitfalls in the management of acute urinary obstruction complicated by uraemia with special -reference to stone. Brit. J.iUnoL, 1972, 44, 9.