Spatial distribution of major and trace elements in bladder and kidney stones

Principles of demineralization: Modern strategies for the isolation of organic frameworks

“…There are 208 bones in the skeleton and 32 teeth in the oral cavity of a normal adult (Skinner, 2000) and 2. unexpected, and undesired, or pathologic mineral deposits including pancreatic calculi (Jin et al, 2002) and stones (Multinger et al, 1983); renal stones (Kageyama et al, 2001); kidney stones (Ryall et al, 2000;Khan et al, 2002); urinary calculi (Suto and Wooley, 1972), stones (Prien and Prien, 1968;Rose, 1977;Williams et al, 2006) and cystoliths (Saetre, 1954); gallstones (Been et al, 1979); bladder stones (Chaudhri et al, 2007); rhinoliths (calculus present in the nasal cavity) (Rasinger et al, 1985;Cellikkanat et al, 1997;Vink et al, 2002;Shaw, 2007); tonsilloliths (oropharyngeal concretions) (Cerny and Bekarek, 1990;Mesolella et al, 2004); vaginoliths-vaginal calculi (Malik et al, 2006;Cetinkursun et al, 2001;Malhotra et al, 2004); cardiolytes (Gilinskaya et al, 2003); cutaneous calculi (Neild and Marsden, 1985;Tezuka, 1980;Moulik et al, 1974); enteroliths (Rudge, 1992;Lopez and Welch, 1991;Pantongrag-Brown et al, 1996); sialoliths-salivary submandibular (Burstein et al, 1979) and parotid gland stones (Thompson, 1973;Slomiany et al, 1983); ptyaliths-calculus in a salivary glands (Anneroth et al, 1975); dental calculi (Rabinowitz et al, 1969).…”

Ionic gold in calcrete revealed by LA-ICP-MS, SXRF and XANES

“…Yang et al, 2008), and in particular, speleothems (Woodhead et al, 2007). Calcareous and/or siliceous biogenic materials analysed include shells (Barats et al, 2007), corals (Potter et al, 2005), forams (Hathorne et al, 2003) and kidney-bladder stones (Chaudhri et al, 2007). There has been a paucity of LA-ICP-MS analysis of Australian regolith materials but Le Gleuher et al (2008) have shown that goethite, vermiculite, smectite and corrensite are important for hosting trace elements including Au.…”

Urinary stones as a novel matrix for human biomonitoring of toxic and essential elements

“…Selection of the stones was based on the results of analysis by infrared spectrometry, and only whewellite and uric acid stones were taken for further analysis due to known association of several elements of interest with phosphate-containing minerals (Abboud 2008a;Bazin et al 2007;Horbarth et al 1993;Chaudhri et al 2007;Moroz et al 2009;Wandt and Underhill 1988;Giannossi et al 2013). Samples Environ Geochem Health identified by IR spectrometry as ''pure'' uric acid or whewellite were subjected to ICP-MS determination of phosphorus content, and samples exceeding 0.6 % of phosphorus content were excluded from further evaluation.…”