Ghost tablet in feces

Recently, we encountered a female patient who identified the presence of a ghost tablet in her fecal matter. Interestingly, although the patient was prescribed potassium chloride capsules, elemental composition analysis by energy‐dispersive X‐ray spectroscopy was unable to detect the presence of eit...

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Autores principales: Iwamuro, Masaya, Morishita, Yosuke, Urata, Haruo, Okada, Hiroyuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Images in Clinical Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5729319/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29264103
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgf2.134
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author Iwamuro, Masaya
Morishita, Yosuke
Urata, Haruo
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description Recently, we encountered a female patient who identified the presence of a ghost tablet in her fecal matter. Interestingly, although the patient was prescribed potassium chloride capsules, elemental composition analysis by energy‐dispersive X‐ray spectroscopy was unable to detect the presence of either potassium or chloride in the fecal tablet remnant. [Image: see text]
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spelling pubmed-57293192017-12-20 Ghost tablet in feces Iwamuro, Masaya Morishita, Yosuke Urata, Haruo Okada, Hiroyuki J Gen Fam Med Images in Clinical Medicine Recently, we encountered a female patient who identified the presence of a ghost tablet in her fecal matter. Interestingly, although the patient was prescribed potassium chloride capsules, elemental composition analysis by energy‐dispersive X‐ray spectroscopy was unable to detect the presence of either potassium or chloride in the fecal tablet remnant. [Image: see text] John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC5729319/ /pubmed/29264103 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgf2.134 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Journal of General and Family Medicine published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Japan Primary Care Association. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5729319/
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