by Dr Fredric Coe | Dec 16, 2018 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists, Uncategorized
The white clouds you can easily see on this human papillum are Randall’s plaque, named for the man who first described them. Stones grow on them. You can find bits of plaque and on such stones where they were once attached. Because plaque forms in and lies in...
by Dr Fredric Coe and Andrew Evan | Aug 16, 2017 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
This is our main article on Randall’s plaque, a papillary nidus that fosters growth of calcium stones. Other articles on this site illustrate plaque, and discuss plaque as a mechanism of calcium kidney stone production. But these have used plaque as part of...