A discrepant urine specific gravity.

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  • Janice Giasson
  • Yu Chen
چکیده

A 21-year-old man presented after being struck by a car and underwent a computed tomography scan of the chest and spine. Three hours later, his clear yellow urine sample was sent to the laboratory. A routine urinalysis with the Roche Urisys® 2400 indicated the specific gravity (SG) as a flag, i.e., an error for SG. A manual repeat of the SG measurement was also not readable by refractometer (no boundary line on the scale) but was 1.015 according to Roche Chemstrips®. The urine osmolality was 500 mOsm/kg (adult reference interval, 50 –1200 mOsm/kg).

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Clinical chemistry

دوره 58 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012