Kidney Stones Calcium Oxalate Crystals. However if you don t test high for oxalate this diet will not benefit you. Oxalate is a naturally occurring substance found in food.
Ask your cleveland clinic physician if an oxalate controlled diet would be helpful to you. Protrusions on uric acid stones are generally smaller. A kidney stone yellow composed of calcium oxalate spiculations resembling the head of a morning star can be seen on calcium oxalate monohydrate stones.
If there is too much oxalate and too little liquid in the urine calcium oxalate fragments create crystals.
There are two different types based on their predominant crystalline form internal crystal structure. Approximately 80 of crystals are a form of calcium. If there is too much oxalate and too little liquid in the urine calcium oxalate fragments create crystals. Protrusions on uric acid stones are generally smaller.