Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 53, Issue 6 , Page 836 , June 2009

A Man With Black Urine

  • Shih-Wei Liu, MD

      Affiliations

    • Emergency Department, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Chun-Chi Lin, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Clinical Toxicology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Chorng-Kuang How, MD

      Affiliations

    • Emergency Department, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

References 

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  2. Slawson M. Thirty-three drugs that discolor urine and/or stools. RN. 1980;43:40–41
  3. Noll WW, Glass DD. Causes of dark urine. JAMA. 1980;243:2398
  4. Lin CH, Yang JY. Chemical burn with cresol intoxication and multiple organ failure. Burns. 1992;18:162–166

 For the diagnosis and teaching points, see page 843

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doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.10.031

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 53, Issue 6 , Page 836 , June 2009

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