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Special Issue

Microcrystalline pathologies: Clinical issues and nanochemistry

Table of contents

Guest editors
Tribute to Paul Jungers (1932–2022)
Foreword to microcrystalline pathologies: combining clinical activity and fundamental research at the nanoscale
Scanning electron microscopy—a powerful imaging technique for the clinician
Using micro computed tomographic imaging for analyzing kidney stones
Raman spectroscopy as a non-destructive tool to determine the chemical composition of urinary sediments
Raman opportunities in the field of pathological calcifications
Using mid infrared to perform investigations beyond the diffraction limits of microcristalline pathologies: advantages and limitation of Optical PhotoThermal IR spectroscopy
Crystal size in μcrystalline pathologies and its clinical implication
Peculiar opportunities given by XPS spectroscopy for the clinician
The crucial contribution of X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy in medicine
XANES spectroscopy for the clinician
Opportunities given by density functional theory in pathological calcifications
Profile of an “at cutting edge” pathology laboratory for pathological human deposits: from nanometer to in vivo scale analysis on large scale facilities
10,000 urinary stones for 10 years of analysis: a retrospective study in western Switzerland
The epidemiology of kidney stones in Belgium based on Daudon’s morpho-constitutional classification: a retrospective, single-center study
Medullary sponge kidney: what kind of stones?
The type Ic morphology of urinary calculi: an alert to primary hyperoxaluria? Experience with 43 Moroccan children
Drug-induced nephrolithiasis and crystalluria: the particular case of the sulfasalazine derivatives
Lateralization of uric acid stones on the left side
Urinary tract infection inducing stones: some clinical and chemical data
Chronic urine acidification by fludrocortisone to treat infectious kidney stones
Whitlockite structures in kidney stones indicate infectious origin: a scanning electron microscopy and Synchrotron Radiation investigation
Inflammation and injury: what role do they play in the development of Randall’s plaques and formation of calcium oxalate kidney stones?
Randall’s plaque as the origin of idiopathic calcium oxalate stone formation: an update
Inflammation plays a critical role in 2,8-dihydroxyadenine nephropathy
Endoscopic in-situ recognition of urinary stones during LASER-induced stone fragmentation: a modern, effective and essential approach in the diagnostic process in urolithiasis
A novel laser lithotripsy system with automatic target recognition: from bench to bedside
Characterization of deposits on double J stents
SEM-EDX micro-analysis and FTIR infrared microscopy by ATR of a bladder stone from the IIIth millennium BC from the B1S passage-grave of the necropolis in Chenon (Charente, France)
Pathologies related to abnormal deposits in dermatology: a physico-chemical approach
Relationship between calcinosis cutis in epidermal necrolysis and caspofungin, a physicochemical investigation
Cystinuria and cystinosis are usually related to L-cystine: is this really the case for cystinosis? A physicochemical investigation at micrometre and nanometre scale
Characterization through scanning electron microscopy and μFourier transform infrared spectroscopy of microcalcifications present in fine needle aspiration smears
Pathological calcifications in the human joint
Features of gallstones in adult sickle cell patients
Multiscale approach to provide a better physicochemical description of women breast microcalcifications
From visible light to X-ray microscopy: major steps in the evolution of developmental models for calcification of invertebrate skeletons