TY - JOUR T1 - Endemic bladder stones in Nepal. JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - 1503 LP - 1505 DO - 10.1136/adc.63.12.1503 VL - 63 IS - 12 AU - M Ashworth AU - S M Hill Y1 - 1988/12/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/63/12/1503.abstract N2 - Bladder stones account for a large proportion of surgical admissions in many developing countries. We report in detail the clinical features and risk factors of one such case, a 5 year old Nepali boy, and propose the theory that a low calcium intake, by causing hypocalciuria, predisposes to bladder stone formation. ER -