Ketoacidosis with Unexpected Serum Isopropyl Alcohol
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Ketoacidosis with unexpected serum isopropyl alcohol.
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Affiliations: 1. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore; 2. Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University of Basel Hospitals, Basel, Switzerland; 3. Institute of Hygiene and Applied Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Address correspondence to Matthias Maiwald, MD, PhD, Department of Pathology...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Chemistry
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0009-9147,1530-8561
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2010.157248