title: Urolithiasis and race: another viewpoint.
abstract: We describe 193 consecutive individuals with documented urolithiasis in a military population. In contrast to other reports, the prevalence of stone disease was nearly identical in white-and black patients. This unique black population refutes the concept that urinary calculi are rare in blacks.
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D006801:Humans; D008887:Military Medicine; D014545:Urinary Calculi / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014861:Washington; D044465:White People