Pediatric urolithiasis in Morocco: Composition of 432 urinary calculi analyzed by infrared spectroscopy

摘要

Purpose. - Incidence of pediatric urolithiasis is decreasing in most developing countries where endemic bladder stones are less prevalent than in the past years. In parallel, stone composition has changed. Only few data are available in North Africa, except for Tunisia. We report stone composition in the Moroccan pediatric population.