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Renal calculi presenting as hyperhidrosis in patient with spinal cord injury.

Borawski KM, Sur RL, Preminger GM

Comprehensive Kidney Stone Center, Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA.

Renal calculi in the spinal cord injury population present a diagnostic dilemma for urologists. However, 7% of all patients with spinal cord injury will develop renal calculi. Undiagnosed stone disease can lead to significant morbidity and mortality in this population. This case demonstrates the subtlety of the presenting symptoms of renal calculi in the patient with spinal cord injury.

Published 15 May 2006 in Urology, 67(5): 1084.e13-4.
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