NDT Advance Access originally published online on May 30, 2006
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2006 21(9):2667; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl278
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Images In Nephrology
(Section Editor: G. H. Neild)
The importance of recognizing whewellite
1 Department of Pharmacology, 2 Department of Pathology and 3 Division of Nephrology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA
Correspondence and offprint requests to: Martin Sedlacek, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Nephrology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH 03756-0001, USA. Email: martin.sedlacek@hitchcock.org
Keywords: acute renal failure; crystalluria; ethylene glycol; oxalate crystals; urinalysis; whewellite
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An 81-year-old man was found lying on the ground outside his home. He was comatose and hypothermic. He had a severe metabolic