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ReviewUrolithiasis2017

Accurate stone analysis: the impact on disease diagnosis and treatment.

Neil S Mandel, Ian C Mandel, Ann M Kolbach-Mandel

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Review in Urolithiasis, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07328932 (Development of a Precision Classification Model for Uric Acid Urinary Stones Based on Multimodal Parameters), which is not on this map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
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What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT07328932 active not recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

Development of a Precision Classification Model for Uric Acid Urinary Stones Based on Multimodal Parameters: A Multicenter Observational Study

Typeobservational_patient_registrySponsorJian ZhuoRan2025 to 2027Enrolled1,650ConditionsUrinary Tract StonesArmsNo intervention (observational study)
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Neil S MandelDivision of Nephrology, Mandel International Stone and Molecular Analysis Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Clement J. Zablocki Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Research Service/151, 5000 W. National Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53295, USA. nmandel@mcw.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5783-7360
Ian C MandelDivision of Nephrology, Mandel International Stone and Molecular Analysis Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Clement J. Zablocki Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Research Service/151, 5000 W. National Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53295, USA.
Ann M Kolbach-MandelDivision of Nephrology, Mandel International Stone and Molecular Analysis Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Clement J. Zablocki Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Research Service/151, 5000 W. National Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53295, USA.
Medical College of Wisconsin · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This manuscript reviews the requirements for acceptable compositional analysis of kidney stones using various biophysical methods. High-resolution X-ray powder diffraction crystallography and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) are the only acceptable methods in our labs for kidney stone analysis. The use of well-constructed spectral reference libraries is the basis for accurate and complete stone analysis. The literature included in this manuscript identify errors in most commercial laboratories and in some academic centers. We provide personal comments on why such errors are occurring at such high rates, and although the work load is rather large, it is very worthwhile in providing accurate stone compositions. We also provide the results of our almost 90,000 stone analyses and a breakdown of the number of components we have observed in the various stones. We also offer advice on determining the method used by the various FTIR equipment manufacturers who also provide a stone analysis library so that the FTIR users can feel comfortable in the accuracy of their reported results. Such an analysis on the accuracy of the individual reference libraries could positively influence the reduction in their respective error rates.

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Decision TreesHumansKidney CalculiCalcium oxalateFTIRKidney stone analysisUric acidX-ray diffraction

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PMID27915396
OpenAlexW2557895483

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