RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Childhood urolithiasis in Britain
JF Archives of Disease in Childhood
JO Arch Dis Child
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP 291
OP 295
DO 10.1136/adc.48.4.291
VO 48
IS 4
A1 S. Ghazali
A1 T. M. Barratt
A1 D. I. Williams
YR 1973
UL http://adc.bmj.com/content/48/4/291.abstract
AB 120 children with urinary calculi were treated between 1966 and 1971. 75% were male, and the median age of diagnosis was 3 years. In 34 there were associated urological abnormalities and in 8 a metabolic cause of calculi was identified. 12 of 67 children had hypercalciuria. In 95 children the urine was infected on admission to hospital; in 76, particularly the younger children, this was with Proteus species. Calculi recurred after surgery in 13 children, and in 9 the only identifiable factor was failure to eradicate the Proteus infection.