The Case of the Lime-green Stool: A Case Report and Review of Occult Blood Testing in the Emergency Department

INTRODUCTION: Food dyes mimicking gastrointestinal (GI) hemorrhage have been described in literature. However, reports of food additives causing melanotic stools and falsely positive fecal occult blood tests (FOBT) are uncommon in literature. CASE REPORT: We present a case of a 93-year-old with FOBT...

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Autores principales: Salisbury, James D., Goodrich, Jennifer G., McManus, Nicholas M., Offman, Ryan P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8373194/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34437038
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2021.4.51656

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