Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29264103›Full record

ArticleJournal of general and family medicine2017

Ghost tablet in feces.

Masaya Iwamuro, Yosuke Morishita, Haruo Urata, Hiroyuki Okada

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Article in Journal of general and family medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Crohn's disease exacerbated by ghost pills of upadacitinib.Clinical journal of gastroenterology · 2025
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  2. Ghost tablet in feces.Journal of general and family medicine · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Masaya IwamuroDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences Okayama Japan.
Yosuke MorishitaDepartment of Pharmacy Okayama University Hospital Okayama Japan.
Haruo UrataCentral Research Laboratory Okayama University Medical School Okayama Japan.
Hiroyuki OkadaDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences Okayama Japan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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.

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PMID29264103
PMCPMC5729319

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