Balaji K C, Menon M
Department of Surgery, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, USA.
Urol Clin North Am. 1997 Feb;24(1):1-11. doi: 10.1016/s0094-0143(05)70350-5.
This article reviews the physical principles involved in urolithiasis. For urinary stones to form, crystals must form first and they then should be retained in the urinary tract. These phenomena require the interaction between the forces of saturation, crystal inhibition, crystal nucleation, growth aggregation, and retention, which all occur in a complex solution. In the latter part of the article the authors review the relevance of these physical principles in the lithogenesis of the most common urinary stones.
本文综述了尿路结石形成所涉及的物理原理。要形成尿石，必须先形成晶体，然后晶体应滞留在尿路中。这些现象需要饱和力、晶体抑制、晶体成核、生长聚集和滞留力之间的相互作用，而这些作用都发生在复杂的溶液中。在本文的后半部分，作者回顾了这些物理原理在最常见尿路结石的结石形成过程中的相关性。
