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MILTON C. BORMAN, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1930;40(4):804-812.

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The increasing attention of the medical and surgical profession to pathologic conditions of the urinary tract in children and the possibility of more than incidental association of bone suppuration and renal calculi suggested the advisability of making this report.

UROLITHIASIS IN CHILDREN

Young¹ stated that urolithiasis is very common in children in some countries, but that it is far less common in children in America. Holt² noted that at necropsy small stones were found in the urinary tract of children in the first two years of life. Rafin³ reported 322 cases in infants. Bokay⁴ collected 1,836 cases of calculi in infants and children. Twenty-five per cent of Thomson's⁵ 3,492 cases of urinary lithiasis in China occurred in children under 10 years of age, the youngest being 2 years old. Thomas and Tanner⁶ collected 197 cases of calculi reported in children in this country. They . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
MILWAUKEE

From the Montgomery Clinic, Montgomery, W. Va.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, March 12, 1930.

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