Open AccessGhost tablet in feces
Author(s) -
Iwamuro Masaya,
Morishita Yosuke,
Urata Haruo,
Okada Hiroyuki
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of general and family medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2189-7948
DOI - 10.1002/jgf2.134
Subject(s) - feces , potassium , medicine , ingestion , pill , chloride , gastroenterology , pharmacology , chemistry , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , organic chemistry
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.