Kidney Stone Identification Pictures. Largest stone measures 1 2 cm in size. Kidney stones occur in 1 in 20 people at some time in their life.
Removed with ureteroscopy from a single kidney. These crystals are caused by an abundance of calcium in the urine which combines with oxalic acid. Uric acid kidney stone.
Around 8 percent of kidney stones can be categorized as calcium type stones and of those most are calcium oxalate stones.
A stone in the kidney or lower down in the urinary tract. The development of the stones is related to decreased urine volume or increased excretion of stone forming components such as calcium oxalate urate cystine. The wedges on my pie chart show the relative abundances of stone types in our large population of stone forming patients. Largest stone measured 4mm in size.