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Background In 2008 there was an epidemic of renal disease affecting infants after consumption of melaminetainted milk products. Most of the infected children were asymptomatic or with mild symptoms, and a few suffered from acute obstructive kidney injury secondary to melamine-contained renal stones (8 of 15 577 children screened at our hospital for urolithiasis). This study was intended to retrospectively...