title: [Alkaptonuria-ochronosis].
abstract: The authors describe the case of a 40-year old female patient. Since her childhood she realised of her urine the black discoloration of the underwear. For about a year, without subjective complaints, blue-black color of the skin involved the axillae and pinnae. For a year appeared the increased pain of thoracal and lumbal spine column and the limitation of motion of these parts. The examination of urine, histological and electron microscopical findings, the X-ray photograph of the spinal column confirmed the diagnosis of alkaptonuria or rather congenital ochronosis.
authors.affiliation: Pécsi Orvostudományi Egyetem Börgyógyászati Klinika.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hortobágyi
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sebök
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Zombai
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Klujber
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000474:Alkaptonuria / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000235:genetics; D004425:Ear Cartilage / Q000648:ultrastructure; D004431:Ear, External / Q000648:ultrastructure; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009794:Ochronosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology; D011859:Radiography; D013122:Spinal Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging
vernacular_title: Alkaptonuria-ochronosis.