Erschienen in:
07.06.2019 | Letter to the Editor
RE: Geobiology reveals how human kidney stones dissolve in vivo (by: Sivaguru et al. 2018)
verfasst von:
Vincent De Coninck, Etienne Xavier Keller, Michel Daudon, Olivier Traxer
Erschienen in:
World Journal of Urology
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Ausgabe 11/2019
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Excerpt
Sivaguru et al. evaluated the evolution of calcium oxalate stones using geobiology [
1]. They observed how calcium oxalate stones undergo multiple events of dissolution during crystallization and growth in the kidney based on super-resolution auto-fluorescence images. They concluded that their results “modify the long-held working assumption that calcium oxalate is strongly insoluble in vivo”. We disagree with this statement since their findings are nothing new under the sun. …