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II. UROBILINOGEN IN THE URINE AND FECES OF SUBJECTS WITHOUT EVIDENCE OF DISEASE OF THE LIVER OR BILIARY TRACT

CECIL JAMES WATSON, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1937;59(2):196-205.

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The tests for urobilinogen in the urine and feces which are commonly employed in the clinical study of jaundice and of hepatic function have not met with general approval, because of the varying and indefinite results obtained. In a recent review of the literature on tests of hepatic function by Soffer¹ this was in effect the conclusion reached. When one considers the varying dilution of the urine as well as the varying hourly excretion of the normal traces of urobilinogen in the urine (Bang²) and the much larger amounts present in the normal feces (Singer³), in which the concentration also is subject to wide variation, and when one considers further the daily and even hourly variations in the degree of urobilinuria in pathologic states, it is little wonder that qualitative tests, such as those of Ehrlich⁴ and Schlesinger,⁵ and roughly quantitative procedures, such as those . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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MINNEAPOLIS

From the Department of Medicine, the University of Minnesota Hospital.

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Aided by a grant from the Research Fund of the Graduate School, the University of Minnesota.

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