Results of the evaluation of 85 337 urinary stone analyses

In this work 85337 urinary stones were analysed by X-ray diffraction in regard of their qualitative and quantitative composition. Urological practitioners and hospitals from all areas of the former FRG sent urinary stones to the Institute of Mineralogy in Bonn and to the Urology Department of the St Josef-Hospital in Troisdorf up to December 31(st), 1994. The evaluations were carried out with special regard to the frequency of occurrence and to the quantity portions. The frequency of occurrence of one component describes the percentage of the urinary stones which contain this component. The quantity portion describes the average amount of one component in regard to all Urinary stones which contain this component as well. The frequency of occurrence of whewellite was 75.77% and of wheddellite 46.41%. 34.25% of all calculi were monomineralic and 55.3% were bimineralic.