Richard.W.Norman,in 74th annual refresher course in practical aspect in the medical management of urinary stone diseases, Dalhosic University, November 2000.

has been cited by the following article:

• TITLE: Crystal Growth of Some Renal Stones Constituents: I. In vitro Crystallization of Trace Element and Its Characterization Studies

  AUTHORS: P. Sundaramoorthi, S. Kalainathan

  KEYWORDS: Renal stones, TE-BHP, renal calculi, gel growth, Surface morphology, Growth parameters, trace elements, SDM, DDM.

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Minerals and Materials Characterization and Engineering, Vol.6 No.1, June 12, 2007

  ABSTRACT: The urinary calculi formation is still now unknown problems and seems to be very complex phenomenon. The in vitro studies are carried out by artificial renal stone formation in silica gel medium. In general, it appeared that trace element (TE) contents in mixed structure are always between values of respective pure phases. It is also found that some of the toxic elements such as barium are related to the structure but not necessarily to environment influences as in the case of lead. Barium hydrogen phosphate crystals are grown in gel method then identified the optimum growth parameters. TE mixed crystals are grown in different growth parameters. The grown crystals are analyzed by XRD, TGA/DTA, and SEM.The results are recorded and reported.