Purple urine bag syndrome

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 309-310

  Ollapallil, Jacob ^a   Irukulla, Shashidhar ^a   Gunawardena, Indunil ^a  

^a ALICE SPRINGS HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Catheters; Indigo blue; Indole; Indoxyl sulphate; Purple urine bag; Tryptophan

Indexed keywords

CITALOPRAM; TRIFLUOPERAZINE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CATHETERIZATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONSTIPATION; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LAPAROTOMY; PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA; PH; PURPLE URINE BAG SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT DISEASE;

APPENDICITIS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTIPATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIGOTINDISULFONATE SODIUM; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MIDDLE AGED; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SYNDROME; URINARY CATHETERIZATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 0036098105     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1445-2197.2002.02338.x     Document Type: Article

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