Symposium: Treatment of Diabetic Coma: Diabetic Ketoacidosis
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The "third coma" in diabetes: diabetic coma without ketoacidosis.
THE COMPLEXITIES of the diabetic syndrome are underlined by the fact that diabetic coma may occur without obvious ketoacidosis. The position has recently been summarised in a leading article in the British Medical Journal (1965). To the first two comas met with in diabetes, namely diabetic coma with ketosis and hypoglycaemic coma due to excess insulin, must then be added a third type of coma. T...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 1980
ISSN: 0141-0768,1758-1095
DOI: 10.1177/014107688007300210