FT-IR Analysis of Urinary Stones: A Helpful Tool for Clinician Comparison with the Chemical Spot Test

Background. Kidney stones are a common illness with multifactorial etiopathogenesis. The determination of crystalline and molecular composition and the quantification of all stone components are important to establish the etiology of stones disease but it is often laborious to obtain using the chemi...

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Main Authors: Aniello Primiano, Silvia Persichilli, Giovanni Gambaro, Pietro Manuel Ferraro, Alessandro D’Addessi, Andrea Cocci, Arcangelo Schiattarella, Cecilia Zuppi, Jacopo Gervasoni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
Series:Disease Markers
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/176165