Secondary and miscellaneous urolithiasis. Medications, urinary diversions, and foreign bodies
Drach, G.W.
Urologic Clinics of North America 27(2): 269-273
2000
ISSN/ISBN: 0094-0143 PMID: 10778469 Document Number: 515684
Secondary stones, those with no "classic" cause, provide unusual diagnostic and treatment challenges to the urologist. Stones related to medications, to urinary diversions or augmentation, or to presence of foreign bodies within the urinary tract occur rarely. Nevertheless, they represent situations that may be corrected fully by appropriate conservative or procedural therapy, and therefore they must be included in the differential diagnosis of many patients who present with symptoms of urolithiasis.