Diabetic Ketoacidosis with Two Life Threatening Infections: Mucormycosis, and Bilateral Emphysematous Pyelonepritis, Preciptating Erythema Nodosum Leprosum as the Initial Presentation of Diabetes
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Ahmed Daoud1*, Amira Elbendary2,3, Mohanad Elfishawi1, Mahmoud Rabea1, Mostafa Alfishawy1,4, Sholkamy Amany MD and Wasfy Ayda MD 1Internal Medicine department – Kasr Alainy Hospital, Cairo University, Egypt 2Dermatology Department, Kasr Alainy Hospital, Cairo University, Egypt 3Ackerman Academy of Dermatopathology, New York, New York, USA 4Ichan School of Medicine, Mount Sinai/ Queens General Hospital, New York, USA
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