Alkaptonuria diagnosed in a 4-month-old baby girl: a case report

The mother of a four month old female baby attended in the well baby clinic with the complaint of black staining of the diaper after few minutes of urination. The baby was born of a non consanguineous marriage, healthy and breast fed. Mother noticed that stain first at the age of two and half month....

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Autores principales: Datta, Asok K, Mandal, Syamali, Dasgupta, Anindya, Ghosh, Tarun K
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2596114/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19014543
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-308
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author Datta, Asok K
Mandal, Syamali
Dasgupta, Anindya
Ghosh, Tarun K
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description The mother of a four month old female baby attended in the well baby clinic with the complaint of black staining of the diaper after few minutes of urination. The baby was born of a non consanguineous marriage, healthy and breast fed. Mother noticed that stain first at the age of two and half month. The urine when kept in a test tube for two hours turned black. Laboratory examination of urine revealed increased concentration of homogentisic acid. The patient was diagnosed as alkaptonuria.
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spelling pubmed-25961142008-12-05 Alkaptonuria diagnosed in a 4-month-old baby girl: a case report Datta, Asok K Mandal, Syamali Dasgupta, Anindya Ghosh, Tarun K Cases J Case Report The mother of a four month old female baby attended in the well baby clinic with the complaint of black staining of the diaper after few minutes of urination. The baby was born of a non consanguineous marriage, healthy and breast fed. Mother noticed that stain first at the age of two and half month. The urine when kept in a test tube for two hours turned black. Laboratory examination of urine revealed increased concentration of homogentisic acid. The patient was diagnosed as alkaptonuria. BioMed Central 2008-11-13 /pmc/articles/PMC2596114/ /pubmed/19014543 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-308 Text en Copyright © 2008 Datta et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Datta, Asok K
Mandal, Syamali
Dasgupta, Anindya
Ghosh, Tarun K
Alkaptonuria diagnosed in a 4-month-old baby girl: a case report
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title_full Alkaptonuria diagnosed in a 4-month-old baby girl: a case report
title_fullStr Alkaptonuria diagnosed in a 4-month-old baby girl: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Alkaptonuria diagnosed in a 4-month-old baby girl: a case report
title_short Alkaptonuria diagnosed in a 4-month-old baby girl: a case report
title_sort alkaptonuria diagnosed in a 4-month-old baby girl: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2596114/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19014543
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-308
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