PM&R
Volume 2, Issue 4 , Pages 303-306 , April 2010

Purple Urine Bag Syndrome in Rehabilitation

  • Gilbert Siu, DO, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Temple University Hospital, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation/MossRehab, 3401 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19140†
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: G.S.
    • ,
  • Thomas Watanabe, MD

      Affiliations

    • MossRehab, Philadelphia, PA‡

Received 29 September 2009 ,Accepted 5 January 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pmrj.2010.01.007

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