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Edited by Fredric L. Coe, Murray J. Favus, Charles Y.C. Pak, Joan H. Parks, and Glenn M. Preminger. 1109 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, Lippincott-Raven, 1996. $275. ISBN 0-7817-0263-1.

On an international scale, the number of scientists interested in research on kidney stones seems to have decreased in recent years. However, those who think that a few minimally invasive methods, such as shock-wave lithotripsy, meant victory over kidney-stone diseases will know better when they read this book of more than 1000 pages, in which quality goes hand in hand with quantity.

We are far from having answered all questions about the mechanism of stone formation. As the book's preface states, "urine of almost everyone who reads this book will be supersaturated with respect to calcium oxalate while reading it," . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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