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- Title
Red and blue make purple.
- Authors
Alagiakrishnan, Kannayiram; Marinucci, Ivana
- Abstract
Opinion. Explains the purple staining of the urine of a 38-year-old female AIDS patient who is admitted to the hospital with diarrhea and pyrexia. Treatment of the patient with radiotherapy for high-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with cerebral metastasis; Bacterial fermentation or urinary indican to indigo and indirubin; Oxidation of free indoxyl in an alkaline environment.
- Subjects
URINALYSIS; LYMPHOMA treatment; METASTASIS
- Publication
Patient Care (Print), 1998, Vol 32, Issue 19, p105
- ISSN
0031-305X
- Publication type
Editorial