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| Year : 2015 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 117-119 |
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Renal silica calculi in children: Report of two cases and review of literature
VBR Gouru, SP Vaddi, SR Dadireddy, S Gnanaguruswamy
Department of Urology and Renal Transplantation, Narayana Medical College, Chintareddypalem, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. VBR Gouru
Department of Urology and Renal Transplantation, Narayana Medical College, Chintareddypalem, Nellore - 524 003, Andhra Pradesh
India
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DOI: 10.4103/2278-9596.158828
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Renal silicate calculi are rare, with an incidence of 0.2% of all urinary calculi in humans. Several case reports showing that the long-term administration of magnesium trisilicate induced silica renal calculi. We report two cases of silicate renal calculi in children and the composition is purely silicon dioxide (100%) in both cases. The first child was a 7-year-old boy who presented with fever, vomiting, and loin pain for 2 months. His father and younger sister had undergone interventions for renal calculi. Intravenous urogram (IVU) revealed a left renal calculus of 2.2 × 1.8 cm which was treated by percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL). The second case was an 8-year-old girl who's clinical and radiological evaluation lead to a diagnosis of left renal calculi which was treated by PCNL. In both cases the composition of the stone was 100% silicon dioxide. |
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