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International Journal of Nephrology
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 419213, 3 pages
doi:10.4061/2011/419213
Review Article

Purple Urine Bag Syndrome: An Alarming Hue? A Brief Review of the Literature

Fahad Khan, Muhammad A. Chaudhry, Noorulain Qureshi, and Benjamin Cowley

Section of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73126-0901, USA

Received 1 August 2011; Accepted 9 August 2011

Academic Editor: Greg Tesch

Copyright © 2011 Fahad Khan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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