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GEORGE H. EWELL, M.D.

J Am Med Assoc. 1932;99(26):2160-2166.

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Cystine nephrolithiasis is a comparatively rare and exceedingly interesting pathologic finding. It probably occurs more often than is reported, as it is not at all unreasonable to suppose that some of the cases of recurrent renal calculi are of this type, as well as single instances of passed or surgically removed calculi not subjected to chemical analysis.

Simon,¹ in 1900, collected from the literature 103 cases of cystine calculi. In 1912, Link² collected 146 cases. In 1925, Seeger and Kearns³ noted 181 reported cases of cystinuria, 124 of which were complicated with calculus formation. Lewis⁴ found seventy-one reported cases of cystinuria from 1921 to 1932, although calculus formation was not observed in all of these. Henline,⁵ in 1930, reported three cases of cystine nephrolithiasis. About 70 per cent of the reported cases have been in males. The disease is quite widespread, cases having been reported . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
MADISON, WIS.

From the Section of Urology, the Jackson Clinic.

Footnotes
Read before the Section on Urology at the Eighty-Third Annual Session of the American Medical Association, New Orleans, May 11, 1932.

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